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单词 membra disjecta
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membra disjectan.

Brit. /ˌmɛmbrə dᵻsˈdʒɛktə/, /ˌmɛmbrə dɪsˈjɛktə/, U.S. /ˌmɛmbrə dəsˈdʒɛktə/, /ˌmɛmbrə dɪsˈjɛktə/
Forms: 1800s– membra disjecta, 1900s– membra disiecta.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: disjecta membra n.
Etymology: Altered form of disjecta membra n.; the reversal of the two Latin words perhaps reflects a desire to reflect more closely the usual word order of classical Latin.
= disjecta membra n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains > scattered
disjecta membra1722
membra disjecta1829
1829 N. Amer. Rev. July 122 It is in his [sc. Burke's] writings..that we are to look..for the scattered elements, the membra disjecta, of a true theory of government.
1847 Southern & Western Literary Messenger & Rev. 13 437/1 If the membra disjecta of the Orpheus of Virginia could be collected, they would make a whole not unworthy to be classed with Byron, Scott, Campbell and Moore.
1896 Mind 5 453 Degradation is undergone when a zoomorph, having ceased to be the visual equivalent of a realistic original..breaks up into a medley of membra disjecta.
1957 N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon p. lxii The membra disiecta have come into existence for various reasons and especially because one part of a manuscript seemed more important than another part.
1963 A. E. Elsen Rodin 175 Vitrines filled with the sculptor's arsenal of membra disjecta.
1986 MLN 101 487 It discovers..the means to treat the fragments of Greece..as the ‘membra disiecta’ of history.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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