disjection

English

Etymology

From Latin disjicere, disjectum (“to throw asunder, disperse”), from dis- + jacere (“to throw”).

Noun

disjection (countable and uncountable, plural disjections)

1. destruction; dispersion
   • 1820, Samuel Horsley, Biblical Criticism:

     a very striking image of the sudden disjection of Pharaoh's host