adv. [f. prec.] In an unconnected manner; disconnectedly.
1778. Tooke, Lett. to Dunning, ad fin. He thought the best way to make his zany talk unconnectedly and nonsensically, was [etc.].
1799. V. Knox, Lord’s Supper, xvii. Wks. 1824, VII. 423. This petition therefore comes in very abruptly and unconnectedly.
1817. J. Scott, Paris Revisit. (ed. 4), 389. Enabling them to regard it unconnectedly with circumstances of humiliation.
1841. Marryat, Poacher, xxxix. They … would talk unconnectedly, running from one subject to another.
1877. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 192. Twenty-six mining districts are distributed irregularly over the county, occupying unconnectedly the various mountain-ranges.
