Word Meanings - INCONTIGUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.

CONTACTION
Act of touching.
BOYLE'S LAW
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CONTIGUOUS
In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head.
CONTACT
The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. (more info) 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
ADJOIN
To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts.
ADJOINANT
Contiguous. Carew.
SEPARATE
pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
ADJOINT
An adjunct; a helper.
ADJOINING
Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." Dryden. Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak. Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent.
INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak.
INCONTIGUOUS
Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.
INSEPARATELY
Inseparably. Cranmer.