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Word Meanings - DISCONNECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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.

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    To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
  • EXCEPT
    1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • COUNTERFLEURY
    Counterflory.
  • COUNTERVIEW
    1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
  • ADMITTER
    One who admits.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • COUNTABLE
    Capable of being numbered.
  • DIVORCEABLE
    Capable of being divorced.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
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    See MACUALAY
  • COUNTERJUMPER
    A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
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    reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
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    In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
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    Capable of being broken.
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    One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
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    At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
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    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
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    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
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    Not separate; together; united. Shak.

 

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