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Word Meanings - INCONTIGUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.

Related words: (words related to INCONTIGUOUS)

  • CONTACTION
    Act of touching.
  • BOYLE'S LAW
    See LAW
  • CONTIGUOUS
    In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head.
  • CONTACT
    The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. (more info) 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
  • ADJOIN
    To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts.
  • ADJOINANT
    Contiguous. Carew.
  • SEPARATE
    pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
  • ADJOINT
    An adjunct; a helper.
  • ADJOINING
    Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." Dryden. Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak. Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent.
  • INSEPARATE
    Not separate; together; united. Shak.
  • INCONTIGUOUS
    Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.
  • INSEPARATELY
    Inseparably. Cranmer.

 

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