DISJOINT Copy link • DISJOINTSeparate into joints, or at the joints, articulatim concidere (Plaut., Epid., 3, 4, 52): membra articulatim dividere (separate joint by joint, Cic.; from an old poet): secare, scindere (to cut up; e.g., a fowl): in frusta excutere (divide a fowl, etc., into joints; Sen., Ep., 47, 4). Dislocate; Vid: ImPROP., destruere: dissolvere (to separate the parts of what was constructed): dissipare (separate and scatter here and there; e.g., a statue).