Want, or absence of relation
Want, or absence of relation
#10. [Want, or absence of relation.] Irrelation. -- N.
irrelation[obs], dissociation; misrelation[obs]; inapplicability;
inconnection[obs]; multifariousness; disconnection &c. (disjunction) 44;
inconsequence, independence; incommensurability; irreconcilableness &c.
(disagreement) 24; heterogeneity; unconformity &c. 83; irrelevancy,
impertinence, nihil ad rem[Lat]; intrusion &c. 24; non-pertinence.
- V. have no relation to &c. 9; have no bearing upon, have no concern
with &c. 9 , have no business with; not concern &c. 9; have no business
there, have nothing to do with,
intrude &c. 24.
- bring in head and shoulders, drag in head and shoulders, lug in head
and shoulders.
- Adj. irrelative[obs], irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary;
independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated,
insular; extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.
- not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable &c. 83.
irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent,
inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes[Fr]; aside from the
purpose,, away from the purpose,, foreign to the purpose, beside the
purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point;
misplaced &c. (intrusive) 24; traveling out of the record.
- remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there,
quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant[obs].
- multifarious; discordant &c. 24.
- incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic.
- Adv. parenthetically &c. adj.; by the way, by the by; en passant[Fr],
incidentally; irrespectively &c. adj.; without reference to, without regard
to; in the abstract &c. 87; a se.