Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of overthrowing or dissipating.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Destruction; dispersion.

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  • noun destruction; dispersion

Etymologies

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Latin disjicere, disjectum, to throw asunder, disperse; dis- + jacere to throw.

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Examples

  • For, in these days of convulsion and disjection, not even the dust of the dead is permitted to rest.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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