disgregate

First attested in 1593; borrowed from Latin disgregātus, perfect passive participle of disgregō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

disgregate (third-person singular simple present disgregates, present participle disgregating, simple past and past participle disgregated) (obsolete)

1. (transitive) To disperse; to scatter.

   Antonyms: congregate, assemble, crowd, press

2. (transitive) To separate into individual parts, disjoin, disintegrate.
   • 1660, Thomas Stanley, III. i. 133, in History of Philosophy:

     Heat, seems to consist of rare parts, and disgregates bodies.

3. (transitive) (according to obsolete theories of vision) To scatter or make divergent (visual rays); (by extension) to dazzle, confuse, dim (the sight).
   • 1645, James Howell, VI. liii. 81, in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ:

     Black doth congregat, unite, and fortifie the sight; the other doth disgregat, scatter, and enfeeble it.

• “disgregate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• gadgetries, raggediest

disgregate

1. inflection of disgregare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

disgregate f pl

1. feminine plural of disgregato

• aggrediste, destreggia

disgregāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of disgregō

disgregate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of disgregar combined with te