misunite

English

Etymology

Verb

misunite (third-person singular simple present misunites, present participle misuniting, simple past and past participle misunited)

To unite that which does not belong together.
- 1904, The Sacred Books of the Old Testament, page 270:
  This, it may be supposed, is the original reading; this verse, just as v. 16, belongs neither to the gragment of an historical narrative, which is preserved in vv. 14f (with which modern commentators generally misunite those two verses), nor to the legend, vv. 17 ff., but to the Epitomist whose mode of representation is plainly apparent in them.
- 1905 April-June, Robert Burkitt, “A Kekchí Will of the Sixteenth Century”, in American Anthropologist, volume 7, number 2, page 272:
  The disposition of the words, syllables, and letters is much as my copy represents. Words are misunited; and words are broken apart, often, apparently, at haphazard.
- 2022, Ann K. Mellor, Blake's Human Form Divine, page 321:
  He can then create the ideal artistic image pictured on Plate 75, a clearly defined but infinitely expanding line of interlocking circles of open-winged angels, rather than the blurred confusion of serpent, male and female at the bottom of this plate that is the artistic product of Rahab's —or Blake's archenemy Joshua Reynolds'—disunity misunited.
- 2023, François Guizot, History of France from the Earliest Times:
  but what dignity could we confer on Charles, who hath not honor for his guide, who is enfeebled by lethargy, and who, finally, hath lost head so far that he hath no shame in serving a foreign king, and in misuniting himself to a woman taken from the rank of the knights his vassals?
To unite badly.
- 1955, All India Reporter - Volume 5, page 219:
  […] fracture of the right clavical which was badly misunited and which according to him did not cause the plaintiff any disability but only a disfigurement .
- 2016, Max M. Houck, Forensic Anthropology, page 292:
  The bony fragments are misunited because the fracture was never reduced by a doctor prior to bony repair.