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... further classified according to their meaning: "Aux" is disjunctive, connecting alternates, and expressing separation. "Kaj" is copulative, expressing union. "Nek" is disjunctive, expressing separation and also negation. "Sed" is adversative, expressing opposition, contrast, or modification of a previous statement. "Tamen" is adversative, ...

— A Complete Grammar of Esperanto • Ivy Kellerman

... 2. Whenever the disjunctive is simple (i.e. unaccompanied with the word either or neither) the verb agrees with the first of ...

— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham

... ingenuity Pope's Translation of the Iliad; still a point was looked for at the end of each second line, and the whole was, as it were, a sorites, or, if I may exchange a logical for a grammatical metaphor, a conjunction disjunctive, of epigrams. Meantime the matter and diction seemed to me characterized not so much by poetic thoughts, as by thoughts translated into the language of poetry. On this last point, I had occasion to render my own thoughts gradually ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... again, are diverse. Thus: my contrary axioms are Disjunctive, and Subdisjunctive; and so, with the rest. So, too, in degree, ...

— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville