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To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder. That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. Milton. Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy. Addison. Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses. Pennant.

To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage. [Obs.] Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be. Chaucer.

Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. [Eng.] And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser.

A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony."

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.

A marriage portion; dowry. [Louisiana]

Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth.

The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. Wyatt.

er from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill.

That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry. [Obs.] His wife brought in dower Cilicia's crown. Dryden.

Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion. Shak.

Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion. Shak.

The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower. Shak. Dryden.

le, but deny the need of rulers, priests, or churches, and have no confessions, icons, or marriage ceremonies. They are communistic, opposed to any violence, and unwilling to use the labor of animals. Driven out of Russia proper, many have emigrated to Cyprus and Canada. See Raskolnik, below.

delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd.

ligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.

t departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.