(verb) : dis-sŏcĭo, āvi, ātum, 1
* To separate from fellowship, to disjoin, disunite.
* Lit. (almost exclusively poet.): artas partis,Lucr. 5, 355; cf.: dissociata locis concordi pace ligavit,Ov. M. 1, 25: montes opaca valle, * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 5: Bruttia ora profundo,Stat. S. 1, 3, 32.
* Trop., to separate in sentiment, to disunite, set at variance, estrange (freq. in Cic.): morum dissimilitudo dissociat amicitias,Cic. Lael. 20, 74: homines antea dissociatos jucundissimo inter se sermonis vinculo colligavit,id. Rep. 3, 2; so, barbarorum copias,Tac. A. 12, 55 fin.: populum armis civilibus,Front. Strat. 1, 10, 4: animos civium,Nep. Att. 2, 2: disertos a doctis,Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 72 (cf. shortly before: doctrinarum divortia facta); cf.: legionem a legione,Tac. A. 1, 28 fin.: excidium (Tencteris) minitans ni causam suam dissociarent,gave up, abandoned,id. ib. 13, 56 (shortly before: illi Tencteros, ulteriores etiam nationes socias bello vocabant); id. H. 4, 37.

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