Disjunct

[Lat. disjunct us, from disjungo - dis, and jun go, to join.] Disjoined; separated. ( Zool .) Applied to an insect when the head, trunk, and abdomen are separated by a deep incision. Disjunction, ( diz - jungk's hun ,) n. [Fr., from Lat. disjunctio.] Act of disjoining; disunion; separation. Disjunctive, a. [Fr. disjonctif , disjonctive , from Lat. disjunctivus.] Incapable of union; as, "atoms of a dis junctive nature." (Gram.) A conjunction which disjoins the sense of connected sentences; as, "He is either wicked or foolish:" "They are neither wise nor brave." ( Logic .) A proposition compounded of two or more categorical propositions, so stated as to imply that some of them must be true: thus, "Either AB, or CD." A D. , in which the two propositions are not naturally connected together in such a manner as to warrant their being proposed as alternatives, is nugatory and absurd in sense, although not incorrect in logical form. If one or more of the categorical antecedent propositions be denied, we infer that the remaining one, or, if there are more than one, some one of those remaining, is true: e.g. "Either A=B, or C=D; but A is not equal to B, therefore C=D." A poem is either good, bad, or indifferent: but it is not good; therefore it is bad or indif ferent. IMG:content-0632.png:[ocr errors] A word that disjoins; a disjunctive conjunction. Disjunctively, adv . In a disjunctive manner; separately.