disjunction
(dɪsˈdʒʌŋkʃən)
[a. OF. disjunction (13th c. in Godef.), or ad. L. disjunctiōn-em separation, n. of action f. disjungĕre to disjoin.]
1. The action of disjoining or condition of being disjoined; separation, disconnexion, disunion. (The opposite of conjunction 1.)
disjunction certificate, one given to a church member when he leaves to join another church. (Scotland.)
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 322 Þe firste boon of þe necke..disiunccioun of þat boon wole sle a man anoon. c 1430 Lydg. Bochas v. xiv. (1554) 132 a, To make a disiunction Betwene these landes. 1580 Sidney Arcadia iv. (1590) 430 When they made the greevous disjunction of their long combination. 1653 H. More App. Antid. (1662) 184 Death being..a disjunction of the Soul from the Body. 1798 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 51 A total disjunction..between the respective concerns of the church and the state. 1852 Dana Crust. ii. 1124 The frequent disiunction and remoteness of the two superior [eyes]. 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 131 After the disjunction of the new parish. |
2. Logic, etc. The relation of the several terms of a disjunctive proposition; hence, a disjunctive proposition or statement; an alternative.
| 1588 Fraunce Lawiers Log. ii. vii. 95 b, If the disjunction or separation bee true absolutely..without any thirde thing put betweene, then the whole axiome is true and necessary. 1630 Randolph Aristippus Wks. (1875) 7 Hippathi, hippathi, aut disce, aut discede incontinenter—a very good disjunction. 1653 H. More Antid. Ath. i. iv. (1712) 15 If you make choice of the other Member of the Disjunction. 1794 Paley Evid. i. iii. (1817) 56, I am entitled to contend that one side or other of the following disjunction is true. 1864 Bowen Logic vii. 219 The nature of a Disjunction is, that any one of the Disjunct Members exists, or is posited, only by the non-existence, or sublation, of all the others. |
Hence disˈjunctionist, one who leaves a church in order to form a new congregation.
| 1872 J. S. Jeans Western Worthies 135 Dr. Buchanan should accompany the disjunctionists to the new church. |