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adjective

Disjointed adj. Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.

verb

Disjoint v. t. (past & past part. disjointed; pres. part. disjointing)

To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. "Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?"

To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice. "Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall."

To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.

Disjoint v. i. To fall in pieces.

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Etymology of 'Disjointed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to the opening in the wall and mumbled in a crazy sort of a way about a hidden treasure. At the word 'treasure' I saw him pause and listen, but I pretended not to be aware of his presence and rambled on, in a loose, disjointed fashion, about piracies committed by me and the great amount of booty I had secreted. My plan worked perfectly. The jailer came to the aperture in the wall and called me to him. Muttering incoherently, I obeyed. He asked me what ...

— The Darrow Enigma • Melvin L. Severy

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— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin

... painting harmonize. The pianist must do much the same thing. He must listen to his work time and time again and if it does not seem to 'hang together' he must unify all the parts until he can give a real interpretation instead of a collection of disjointed sections. This demands grasp, insight and talent, three qualifications without which the pianist cannot ...

— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke

... wild guesses, too. But this much he did know—these towers had been built by the bald spacemen, and they were highly important to that vanished stellar civilization. The information in this room, as disjointed as it had been for him, led to a treasure trove on Topaz greater than he ...

— The Defiant Agents • Andre Alice Norton

... further evidence tending to show us the point at which this courage veers round to its opposite; for Strauss continues: "Ever remember that thou, and all that thou beholdest within and around thee, all that befalls thee and others, is no disjointed fragment, no wild chaos of atoms or casualties, but that, following eternal law, it springs from the one primal source of all life, all reason, and all good: this is the essence of religion" (pp. 277-78). Out of that "one primal source," however, all ruin and ...

— Thoughts out of Season (Part One) • Friedrich Nietzsche

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