disjuncturen.
1. The fact of disjoining or condition of being disjoined; disjunction; separation, breach.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > disjunction, disunion, or disconnection
unknittingc1384
discretiona1398
disjunctionc1400
disjuncturec1400
discouplingc1425
unjoining?c1425
unjointing?c1425
disjoining1530
disunion1598
breach1625
disunity1632
disconnection1663
disjointure1757
disjointing1794
disarticulation1808
non-union1823
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > dislocation
disjuncturec1400
dislocationc1400
luxation1552
disjointing1598
subluxation1634
partial dislocation1842
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 63 Þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis [in a wound] eiþer þe disiuncture.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Discontinuita, a disiuncture.
a1639 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 477 The departure of my..dear neice, your long, and I dare say, your stil beloved consort..as well appeareth by your many tender expressions of that disjuncture.
a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1683) II. iv. 347 Those bruises, disjunctures, or brokenness of bones.
2. figurative. A juncture or condition of affairs involving disunion; a perplexed or disjointed state of things. (Cf. disjoint n.)
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun]
derayc1300
disray13..
disordinancec1374
unordaininga1382
perturbationa1398
disarrayc1410
misordera1513
disorder1530
confusionc1540
mistemper1549
indisposition1598
ataxy1615
disordination1626
indigestion1630
tumble1634
discomposure1641
incomposure1644
dyscrasy1647
dislocation1659
disarrayment1661
disjuncture1683
rack and manger1687
rantum-scantum1695
derangement1737
disarrangement1790
misarray1810
havoc1812
unhingement1817
mingle-mangleness1827
bedevilment1843
higgledy-piggledyness1854
ramshackledom1897
inchoateness1976
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 225 Basil..was at a loss, how to behave himself in this dis-juncture of Affairs.
1830 Examiner 260/2 At this juncture, or rather disjuncture, the contested demesnes are purchased.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xix. viii. 623 Friedrich..foresaw, in case of such disjunctures in Italy, good likelihood of quarrel there.
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