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Definition of Disjoin
1. Verb. Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of.
Causes: Disjoint
Generic synonyms: Disunite, Divide, Part, Separate
Derivative terms: Disjunction, Disjunctive, Disjuncture
Antonyms: Join
2. Verb. Become separated, disconnected or disjoint.
Generic synonyms: Divide, Part, Separate
Derivative terms: Disjunction, Disjunctive, Disjuncture
Antonyms: Join
Definition of Disjoin
1. v. t. To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.
2. v. i. To become separated; to part.
Definition of Disjoin
1. Verb. (transitive) To separate. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To become separated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disjoin
1. to separate [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: separate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disjoin
Literary usage of Disjoin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Sec disjoin. From he same source, disjunct-ive, disjunct-ive-ly. DISLIKE, not to
like, to disapprove of. (L. and E.) In Shak. eas. i. 2. 18. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"He held that the understanding can only join and disjoin given facts, without
explaining them, and that knowledge deduced in this way is conditioned and ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1827)
"... and Edinburgh—Privilege of Members not to be summoned on Juries—Restoration
of forfeited Scottish Peerages—Debate on Motion to disjoin the Presidency of ..."
4. Anacreon by Anacreon, Thomas Stanley, Arthur Henry Bullen (1893)
"... But by a divorce so slight Be disjoin'd, may cheat the sight : From her kindly
killing eye Make a flash of lightning fly, Sparkling like Minerva's, ..."