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
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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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