v. [UN-2 3.]
1. trans. To sever the joints of; to disjoint, to dislocate.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 10. I wolde I were unjoynted Of every lime.
a. 1547. Surrey, in Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 17. Vnhappy hand, it had been happy time for me, If … vnioynted hadst thou be.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., II. 115. Like to the partes of a house vnioynted and fallen downe.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., March, 52. Thilke same vnhappye Ewe … vnioynted both her bones.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., 161. This old Ram, being unjoynted and taken in pieces, for easier carriage.
1646. Fuller, Wounded Consc., 101. In case his Leg be set, he flings, flounces, and flies out, unjoynting it again.
1723. Pres. St. Russia, I. 63. The Houses … are wholly made of Timber notched in on the four Corners, which they can unjoint in a few Hours.
1762. Phil. Trans., LII. 509. Hence it proceeded up the nave … to the pulpit, which it unjointed.
a. 1878. W. Carleton, Farm Ballads (1893), 84. The mechanic Had well-nigh unjointed the stove-pipe.
1903. A. Adams, Log Cowboy, xi. The steer’s leg had been unjointed in swinging him around.
† b. To carve (spec. a curlew or bittern). Obs.
c. 1470. Hors, Shepe & G. (Roxb.), 33. A curlew unioynted.
1508. W. de Worde, Bk. Keruynge, B j b. Vnioint that bytture. [Hence in later works.]
1821. G. Lamb, Catullus, I. 139.
| Let me see a fowl unjointed, | |
| When your table next is spread: | |
| Who not feeds, and is anointed, | |
| Lives like nothing but the dead. |
2. fig. To sever, separate, disunite.
1561. Norton & Sackv., Gorboduc, I. i. Eche chaunge of course vnioynts the whole estate.
1577. Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist., 239. In as much as the subtletye of sophisters, fonde quirckes,… seuered also, and as it were vnioynted the membres of Christ.
1612. Donne, Progr. Soule, 2nd Anniv., 133. None can these lines or quantities unjoynt, And say this is a line, or this a point.
1624. Middleton, Game at Chess, IV. ii. Hast thou … Unjointed the fair frame of peace?
1671. Milton, Samson, 177. I hear the sound of words, thir sense the air Dissolves unjointed e’re it reach my ear.
3. intr. To come asunder.
1826. Acc. Loss Wesleyan Missionaries (ed. 2), 18. The wreck began to unjoint.
Hence Unjointed (also 6 vnioynte) ppl. a.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg., L iv b. To stay and conpryme the places dissolued, and confort the natural heate of the membre vnioynte.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 54. In a ruine they sought for an vpright building, and for strong ioyntes in an vnioynted ouerthrow.
1591. Florio, 2nd Fruites, 129. Shee is some what crooke backt, shee hath one shoulder vnioynted.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, Pref. A j. The unioynted and scattered frame of our English affaires.
