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  1.  fig. Lacking due connection or cohesion; unconnected, incoherent.

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1588.  Fraunce, Lawiers Log., Ded. ¶ 4. Neyther himselfe can well understand his unjoynted discourse, nor the hearers conceave his uncohærent jangling.

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1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., I. iii. 65. This bald, vnioynted Chat of his.

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a. 1610.  Healey, trans. Theophrastus (1636), 37. Their tedious unjoynted tales.

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1687.  Reflect. Hind & Panther, 35. To renew the old way of fighting with Sand-bags, the true Emblem of his unjoynted, incoherent Stuff.

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  2.  Not furnished with, or connected by, joints.

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1681.  Grew, Musæum, I. ii. 161. Upon his Shoulders he hath two immovable or unjoynted Horns.

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1774.  Phil. Trans., LXV. 7. The columns … are of the simple, or unjointed species.

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. 520. A short, tapering, unjointed bristle.

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1854.  Owen, in Orr’s Circ. Sci., Org. Nat., I. 183. They may be simple, unjointed, firm, bony spines.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vii. 399. Two minute unjointed styles.

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