disjustive

English

Adjective

disjustive (comparative more disjustive, superlative most disjustive)

1. Tending to create or emphasize a difference, contrast, or lack of adjustment.
   • 1893, Rufus Lewis Perry, The Cushite, Or, The Descendants of Ham:

     Both the Hebrew and the Greek say, " I am black and comely, while the Vulgate changes the copulative " and " to the disjustive " but."

   • 1913 August, S.N. Patten, “The Genesis of Personal Traits”, in Popular Science, page 157:

     The milder case, where sex and sensory impressions exert a disjustive pressure, are viewed as natural traits.

   • 1915, Mind and Body - Volume 21, page 411:

     An organ useful to our ancestors may in its present action be disjustive, yet vestiges of it are existent, which may be aroused by a superabundant supply of energy.