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dissociable, a.
(see below)
[In sense 1, f. dis- 10 + sociable, app. after F. dissociable (Montaigne, 16th c.) in same sense; in senses 2 and 3, f. L. dissociāre to dissociate: cf. L. dissociābilis that cannot be united.]
1. |dɪˈsəʊʃəbl|. The reverse of sociable, not companionable, unsociable.
1603Florio Montaigne, There is nothing so dis-sociable and sociable as man, the one for his vice, the other for his nature. 1632Burton Anat. Mel. (ed. 4) iii. iv. i. ii, His Janisary Jesuits, that dissociable society. 1711Addison Spect. No. 3 ⁋6 They came in two by two..matched in the most dissociable Manner. 1860Chamb. Jrnl. XIV. 353 Our insular dissociable habits.
2. That tends to separate or dissociate. [= L. dissociābilis in active sense.] rare.
1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. ii. 57 The student of his own species might be tempted sometimes to roam, but the ocean would be truly dissociable. [After Horace's oceano dissociabili.] 1872A. D. Carlisle Round World xix. 230 The mild Pacific was the only [ocean] whose ‘dissociable’ influence was still unbroken.
3. |dɪˈsəʊʃjəbl|. Capable of being dissociated; separable.
1833G. Waddington Hist. Ch. xiii. 212 Two forms of worship essentially dissociable. 1853Fraser's Mag. XLVII. 560 Elements not dissociable by human means. 1894Westm. Gaz. 20 Dec. 7/2 Surely it is a dangerous thing to say that sport and betting are not dissociable.
Hence diˈssociableness, unsociableness.
1866Carlyle Remin., Irving I. 90, I..had the character of morose dissociableness. |