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To sunder; to separate, as joints. -- Dis`ar*tic`u*la"tion, n.

To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

To separate; to disunite. [R.] Bp. Hurd.

Tending to separate or disunite parts. Encys. Dict.

To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated. [Obs.] As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.

to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals. Walsh.

To be separated or severed; to part. Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. Jer. xvii. 4.

Separate; distinct; disjunct. Sir M. Hale.

Separately; disjunctively.

To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish. Cowper. To discriminate the goats from the sheep. Barrow.

To separate from the bosom. [R.] Young.

y; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate. To disentangle truth from error. Stewart. To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The process of separation, or the condition of being separate, as of the molecules of a body.

To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.

To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan.

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 separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame Prior.…

Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.

Disjoined; separated. [R.]