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Conjoined

Conjoin \Con*join\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conjoined; p. pr. & vb. n. Conjoining.] [F. conjoindre, fr. L. conjungere, -junctum; con- + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Conjugate, Conjunction.] To join together; to unite.

The English army, that divided was Into two parties, is now conjoined in one.
--Shak.

If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined.
--Shak.

Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already.
--Locke.

Conjoined

Conjoined \Con*joined"\, a. (Her.) Joined together or touching.

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conjoined
  1. Joined together, as with conjoined twins, or in matrimony. v

  2. (en-past of: conjoin)

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conjoined

adj. consisting of two or more associated entities; "the interplay of these conjoined yet opposed factors"; "social order and prosperity, the conjoint aims of government"- J.K.Fairbank [syn: conjoint]

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Usage examples of "conjoined".

These enjoyments are distinguished and conjoined as we said affections of good and lusts of evil are.

Mercy conjoined with Judgment and the Divine Mercies sustain the Universe, 800-u.

Graf is herself a conjoined species, collectively possessing degrees in geochemistry, biology, and neuromuscular therapy, as well as owning two dogs, four snakes, six cats, and a breeding leopard gecko colony, whose population fluctuates seasonally between twelve and forty animals.

But when the streams have by a junction gained strength, and can keep their beds clear, they soon carve down a gorge through which they descend from the upper mountain realm to the larger valleys, where their conjoined waters take on a riverlike aspect.

The trapeze-shaped flame between conjoined sheets of glass burned in this towerlike wide darkness as in a little room, letting darkness assert itself a few steps farther on.

This metaphysical principle is closely conjoined with another belief, known as universalism, which asserts that natural, quantifiable, regular laws govern the course of events in the universe uniformly throughout all of space and time.

But there is no view of human life, or of the condition of mankind, from which, without the greatest violence, we can infer the moral attributes, or learn that infinite benevolence, conjoined with infinite power and infinite wisdom, which we must discover by the eyes of faith alone.

The Bourbons also driven from Italy, I strike at Russia--each in turn, you note, Ere they can act conjoined.

When one conjoins with another in the form of being as pure sentience, one is still self, but conjoined intricately.

For all inferences from experience suppose, as their foundation, that the future will resemble the past, and that similar powers will be conjoined with similar sensible qualities.

But when one particular species of event has always, in all instances, been conjoined with another, we make no any scruple of foretelling one upon the appearance of the other, and of employing that reasoning, which can alone assure us of any matter of fact or existence.

And when he says, Similar sensible qualities will always be conjoined with similar secret powers, he is not guilty of a tautology, nor are these propositions in any respect the same.

The seedcoats are afterwards ruptured and cast off by the swelling of the closely conjoined cotyledons, and not by any movement or their separation from one another.

Our idea, therefore, of necessity and causation arises entirely from the uniformity observable in the operations of nature, where similar objects are constantly conjoined together, and the mind is determined by custom to infer the one from the appearance of the other.

My housekeeper was too young, too pretty, and above all too pleasant, she had too keen a wit, for me not to be captivated by all these qualities conjoined.