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disˈjointed, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Separated joint from joint; disjoined, separated; disconnected.
a1643G. Sandys Job 45 (T.) Be..their disjointed bones to powder ground. 1684Contempl. State of Man i. vi. (1699) 69 Consider..the disjoynted disposition of the Bones. 1700Dryden Fables, Ceyx & Alcyone 27, I saw a-drift disjointed planks. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 12/1 Disjoynted and unfinished Members. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 379 That the construction be made upon the entire deed, and not merely upon disjointed parts of it. 1840F. D. Bennett Whaling Voy. II. 191 Some of these [casks] are kept in a disjointed state..ready to be put together. 1887Hall Caine Deemster xxxvii. 247 A little disjointed gipsy encampment of mud-built tents.
2. Consisting of separated or ill-connected parts; disconnected.
1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1682) 96 A dis-joynted People, not under any setled form of Government. 1769Robertson Chas. V, III. x. 258 He felt already..that he was the head of a disjointed body. 1838Thirlwall Greece II. 188 The huge frame of the Persian empire was disjointed and unwieldy.
3. Of words or a discourse: Without proper connexion or sequence; disconnected; incoherent.
a1586Sidney (J.), The constancy of your wit was not wont to bring forth such disjointed speeches. 1614Jackson Creed iii. [v] 30 Vpon such broken disioincted surmises. 1817Earl of Dudley Lett. 3 June (1840) 169 His argument..seems loose and disjointed. 1843Lever J. Hinton xiii, Our conversation dropped into broken disjointed sentences.
Hence disˈjointedly adv., disˈjointedness.
1654Ld. Orrery Parthenissa (1676) 505 The disorders and disjointedness of his discourse. 1749Phil. Trans. XLVI. 134 You remark in all their Actions..a Disjointedness. 1871Ruskin Fors Clav. xi. 19, I must pass, disjointedly, to matters, which, in a written letter, would have been put in a postscript. 1872Mark Twain (Clemens) Innoc. Abr. xii. 85 We talked disjointedly. |