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desjoindre (s.xii1)
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desjoindre (s.xii1)

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dejoindre,  deyjoindre,  desjuindre;  disjoindre, 
(p.p. dezjoynt,  disyount)  
  FEW:  disjungere 3,96a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  desjoindre 9,342c TL: desjoindre 2,1623 DEAF:  desjoindre  DMF:  desjoindre  TLF:  déjoindre  OED:  disjoin v.  / disjoint v.  MED:  disjoinen v.  / disjointen v.  DMLBS:  disjungere 686b

v.trans.

1to separate: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  disgregat: (R) dejunct  Gloss Nequam1 255
2agriculturalto unyoke: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  (The bailiff) deit veer ke lez charues seyent matin joynz, e a dreit hure dezjoynt  HENLEY2 268.c18
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  Des[j]oygnés la charue  BOZ Cont 62
( 1337 )  qant il avoit disjoint les dites boefs hors de sa carue  YBB 11-12 Ed III 289
3to disunite: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  pur ceo s’entremet il (=the Devil) jour et nuit de vous dengluer et desjoindre par corouz [...]  Ancren1 174.7-8
4to break apart: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (engines of war) a la manere de foudre quelle chose ke i ferent soleient tot desjoindre ou derumpre  vegetius2 143.7
♦break open: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  la chasse [...] Desjointe l'unt e deserree  S Edm Life ANTS 2985
5lawto sever, annul: 
( 1305 )  ceo q’est une fez dejoynt par ley ne poet estre rejoynt, si noun par novel joynture de ley  YBB 32-33 Ed I 393
( 1308-09 )  com Michel fust feffé de la pourpartie Felice etc. [...] en taunt si fust [...] la tenaunc [sic] disyount  YBB Ed II i 122
( 1315 )  Vous ne deyoindrez pas ceo q’il vous dit  YBB Ed II xvii 81
6to scatter: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Seient (=the wicked) desjuint (Latin: Dissolvantur) sicume ewes ki decurent  Camb Ps 99.LVII.7

v.intrans.

to come apart, loose: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  La pere desjoint qui fu sur les vousures E li morters part [...]  Anc Test (B) 5198

v.refl.

1to come apart: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Lé fuz ke desuz li esteyent Se dejoyndrent e il chey Sur le palays  S Fran ANTS 7005
2lawto be severed, annulled: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  ne se porra li contract desjoindre  Mir Just 162

p.p. as a.

1separated, distant: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  [...] Camples Qui desjointe est sis leues amples Loing de la cité anciene  Dial Greg SATF 15072
2dislodged, prised open: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Li veile as ondes fut lanciez [...] Li borz desjoinz e descousuz; Nes pot tenir ciment ne gluz  Dial Greg SATF 13311
3med.dislocated: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  lur menbres sunt destuers, desjointz e esluissé  S Aub 1778
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Si le pé est dejoint [...]  A-N Med i 85
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  regarde l’oysel tut herpelé, E ses pennes desjuint e avalé  S Rich ANTS M876
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  sa teste poynte, ses membres desjoyntz [...]  Passion BVM2 108.17
4lawsevered, annulled: 
( 1319 )  S’il (=two issues) seyent dejoynt vous dites verité, mes quant il sount joynt l’un a l’autre [...]  YBB Ed II xxv 38

sbst. inf.

agriculturalunyoking: 
( 1337 )  aprés le disjoyndre chacea les en C.  YBB 11-12 Ed III 289
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