Dislocate \Dis"lo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dislocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dislocating.]

[LL. dislocatus, p. p. of dislocare; dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus.]

To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. --Shak.

After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. --Woodward.

And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. --Fuller.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)