sejunctionn.
/sɪˈdʒʌŋkʃən/ rare.
Separation. In quot. 1532 as a term of rhetoric, after Cicero.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun]
asunderingeOE
sheddingc1175
twinning?c1225
departingc1300
sunderinga1325
to-dighting1340
partingc1350
disseverancec1374
divisionc1374
severinga1382
departitionc1400
separation1413
sunderance1435
departisonc1440
deceperationa1450
severance1467
dissevering1488
dissever?1507
departurec1515
dividing1526
partition1530
sejunction1532
separatinga1557
sequestration1567
decision1574
divorce1593
disseveration16..
dissevermenta1603
sunderment1603
disparting1611
disunition1611
singling1625
divide1642
severation1649
concisure1656
department1677
secretion1696
abgregation1730
disengagement1791
disassociation1825
dispartment1869
dissociation1877
secernment1894
breakaway1897
delinkage1973
1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. E.i This diuision is deuyded into seiunction and distribucion. Seiunction is whan we shew wherein our aduersaries and we agree, and what it is, wherupon we stryue.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 4 Amongst the Mathematicians the Lines are considered under divers species, as Right or Straight..; as also is considerable..their Application and Sejunction, their Conjunction and Separation.
1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick 26 Difference restraineth not the Genus, but by a kind of opposition and sejunction of the Species.
1831 I. Taylor Edwards' Freed. Will Introd. Ess. 86 The sounds good, nice, pleasant,..&c. so fix themselves in the memory in connexion with qualities, as to admit of sejunction from their concretes.
1867 Transmut. Species xiv. 262 An efficient rule for dissociation and sejunction.
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