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To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward.

The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion. It will add infinitely dissociation, distraction, and confusion of these confederate republics. Burke.

To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

One who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion.

A state of separation or disunion; want of unity. Dr. H. More.

Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation. There was a division among the people. John vii. 43.

Separation; disunion of things closely united. To make divorce of their incorporate league. Shak.

A union of two; duality. [R.] Harris.

In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. Wharton.

latile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant. -- Dutch oven, a tin screen for bak…

The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

m of it) in divine service and varying in many points of detail, but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation. The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople, or ecumenical patriarch (whose position is not one of supremacy, but of precedence), the patriarch…

To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.

One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.

t the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State. Shipley.

ished tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down. Burke. Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control. Bancroft.

ting the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion. -- See Sacrament.

hurch founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817. -- Evangelical Union, a religion sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also Morisonians.