单词 | unjointing |
释义 | unjointingn. The action or an instance of unjoint v.; disconnection, separation.In earliest use spec.: dislocation of a bone; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ 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 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 351 The causes of dislocaciouns, i. of vnioyntinges: some ben outward, as fallynge and smytinge and vncouenable stracchinge, and some ben wiþynneforth, as a muscilagynouse humour haldinge þe ioynture. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 358 (MED) In þe hyndermore vnioyntynge [of the elbow], drawe þe arme strongely and smyte the elbowe bakward; with þyn handes enoyntede with oyle, frote it strongely til it entre. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. xl. 116 They had endured the moste cruell renting and vnioynting of their bodely members. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxi. 410 These spraines, and vnjoyntings of lims. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxx. 284 The cause, first of the unjoynting, and then of the finall ruine..of many worthy States. a1658 O. Sedgwick Parable of Prodigal (1660) 348 The wry stepping is the cause of unjoynting, or pinching and paining. 1852 Leicester Chron. 7 Aug. The glass was an 8s. glass, and the damage done to it was the unjointing of the frame, which merely wanted putting together again. 1882 D. Foster Sci. Angler iii. 52 ‘Luck's dead against me, and it's useless fighting against fate,’ was the explanation tendered, while the process of unjointing was being gone through. 1907 Outing Mag. Dec. 377/1 There comes a time when the unjointing of the rod seems a useless expenditure of labor. 2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Nov. (Books section) 23 Herbert makes this a parable..of the political lopping and crushing and unjointing and stretching required by the ideal of equality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1425 |
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