DISCONNECT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Disconnect

... almost impossible to say. The Government will be anxious to treat, and probably it will put forward feelers to-morrow to see how far it may dare go. Some of its members already are endeavouring to disconnect themselves from a capitulation, and, if it does take place, will assert that they were opposed to it. Thus, M. Jules Favre, in a long address to the mayors of the banlieus yesterday, goes through the old arguments to prove that France ...

— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere