I.to separate from fellowship, to disjoin, disunite.
I. 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.—
II. 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.
