nonassemblage. dispersion

Roget category 73

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.4. Order
›› 1.4.3. Collective order

#73. Nonassemblage. Dispersion

noun

dispersion — disjunction etc. 44 — divergence etc. 291 — aspersion — scattering etc. v. — dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution — apportionment etc. 786 — spread, respersion^†, circumfusion^†, interspersion, spargefaction^† — affusion^†.
waifs and estrays^†, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra [Lat.], [Horace]; waveson^†.

verb

disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute — apportion etc. 786 — blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off — strew, straw, strow^† — ted — spirtle^†, cast, sprinkle — issue, deal out, retail, utter — resperse^†, intersperse — set abroach^†, circumfuse^†.
turn adrift, cast adrift — scatter to the winds — spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.

adjective

unassembled etc. (assemble) etc. 72 — dispersed etc. v. — sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread — epidemic etc. (general) 78 — adrift, stray — disheveled, streaming.

adverb

sparsim^†, here and there, passim.

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