disgregate
verbEtymology First attested in 1593; borrowed from Latin disgregātus, perfect passive participle of disgregō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
1
Obsolete To disperse; to scatter.
2
Obsolete To separate into individual parts, disjoin, disintegrate.
- Heat, seems to consist of rare parts, and disgregates bodies.1660, Thomas Stanley, III. i. 133, in History of Philosophy:
3
Obsolete (according to obsolete theories of vision) To scatter or make divergent (visual rays); (by extension) to dazzle, confuse, dim (the sight).
- Black doth congregat, unite, and fortifie the sight; the other doth disgregat, scatter, and enfeeble it.1645, James Howell, VI. liii. 81, in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ:
- Related terms
- aggregate, congregate, egregious, gregarious