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Disunite   Listen
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Disunite  v. i.  To part; to fall asunder; to become separated. "The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite."






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"Disunite" Quotes from Famous Books



... as they call it, the passion of Monsieur de Maulincour. He has never seen me except at a ball; and our intercourse has been most insignificant,—merely that which every one shares at a ball. Perhaps he wants to disunite us, so that he may find me at some future time alone and unprotected. There, see! already you are frowning! Oh, how cordially I hate society! We were so happy without him; why take any notice of him? Jules, I entreat you, forget all this! To-morrow we shall, no doubt, hear that Monsieur ...
— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac

... split, rift, crack, slit, incision. dissection anatomy; decomposition &c 49; cutting instrument &c (sharpness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw. separatist. V. be disjoined &c; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose. disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair^; divorce, part, dispart^, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock &c (fix) 43, unpack, unravel; disentangle; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... thy madness, thus to disunite Ethereal minds, and mix all heaven in fight? What wonder this, when in thy frantic mood Thou drovest a mortal to insult a god? Thy impious hand Tydides' javelin bore, And madly bathed it in ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer

... nature; dread of arbitrary power wars, here, against the free exercise of reason and manly sentiment; laws have been set aside; legislators have come into derision; and contempt from the mother-country seems fast gathering strength to disunite the people of Canada from their friends at home." Notwithstanding these long, involved, awkwardly-constructed sentences, there is no more accurate picture to be found anywhere of the effect of the ...
— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent

... operation of time upon the surface of this earth is to dissolve certain substances, to disunite the solid bodies which are not soluble, but which, in having been consolidated by fusion, are naturally separated by veins and cutters, and to carry those detached bodies, by the mechanic force of moving water, successively ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton

... imported slaves. What would be the consequence of hindering us from it? The slaves of Virginia would rise in value, and we would be obliged to go to your markets." I need not expatiate on this subject. Great as the evil is, a dismemberment of the union would be worse. If those states should disunite from the other states, for not indulging them in the temporary continuance of this traffic, they might solicit and obtain aid ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various

... their fraction is more our wish than their faction. But it was a strong composure a fool could disunite! ...
— The History of Troilus and Cressida • William Shakespeare [Craig edition]

... the strongest propensities of uncultivated or half-cultivated human nature (being the purely selfish ones, and those of a sympathetic character which partake most of the nature of selfishness) evidently tend in themselves to disunite mankind, not to unite them—to make them rivals, not confederates, social existence is only possible by a disciplining of those more powerful propensities, which consists in subordinating them to a common system of opinions. The degree of this subordination is the measure of ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill



Words linked to "Disunite" :   cut up, sequestrate, polarize, cut, isolate, disconnect, disarticulate, rupture, move, keep apart, snap, tear, sever, disunion, sequester, polarise, displace, part, compartmentalize, disjoin, gin, compartmentalise, dissociate, divide, break up, split up, break, split, set apart, bust, separate, disassociate, divorce, joint



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