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Webster 1913 Edition

Dislocate

Dis′lo-cate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dislocated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dislocating
.]
[LL.
dislocatus
, p. p. of
dislocare
;
dis-
+
locare
to place, fr.
locus
place. See
Locus
.]
To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint;
as, to
dislocate
your bones
.
Shak.
After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were
dislocated
.
Woodward.
And thus the archbishop’s see,
dislocated
or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again.
Fuller.

Dis′lo-cate

,
Adj.
[LL.
dislocatus
, p. p.]
Dislocated.
Montgomery.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dislocate

DISLOCATE

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and locate, L., place.] To displace; to put out of its proper place; particularly, to put out of joint; to disjoint; to move a bone from its socket, cavity or place of articulation.

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