Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London
Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart
From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
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To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
a disjointed speech
To fall into pieces.
But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie.