disjecta membran.
Scattered remains.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains > scattered
disjecta membra1722
membra disjecta1829
1722 A. Pope Corr. 27 July (1956) II. 128 You call'd 'em an Horatian Cento, and then I recollected the disjecti membra poetae.
1754 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) II. 411 Shake those words all together, and see if they can be anything but the disjecta membra of Pitt.
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada ix. 186 The savant to whose tender mercies these disjecta membra have been committed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1722- fraggings
- fragile
- fragilely
- fragileness
- fragilenesses
- fragiler
- fragilest
- fragilities
- fragility
- fragment
- fragmental
- fragmentally
- fragmentaries
- fragmentarily
- fragmentariness
- fragmentarinesses
- fragmentary
- fragmentaryes
- fragmentarys
- fragmentate
- fragmentated
- fragmentates
- fragmentating
- fragmentation
- fragmentation bomb