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disjecta membra

[ dis-jek-tuh mem-bruh ]

plural noun

  1. scattered members; disjointed portions or parts: applied to fragments of poetry or fragmentary quotations.


disjecta membra

/ dɪsˈdʒɛktə ˈmɛmbrə /

plural noun

  1. scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of disjecta membra1

< Latin, alteration of disjectī membra poētae limbs of a dismembered poet, a phrase in Horace
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Example Sentences

One might almost get together all the disjecta membra and reconstruct the original Polynesian tongue.

The lumber-room contained among other things the disjecta membra of his old mining life and experience.

His works are after all only the disjecta membra poetæ; full of hints of a great might-have-been.

Plainly there was need of effort to rescue the disjecta membra of the antique and Christian heritages.

They are probably the 'disjecta membra'—a pest on the pedantry of Latin!

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