Crossword clues for conjunctive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conjunctive \Con*junc"tive\, a. [L. conjunctivus.]
Serving to unite; connecting together.
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Closely united. [Obs.]
--Shak.Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood.
Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Latin coniunctivus "serving to connect," from coniunctus, past participle of coniungere (see conjoin). Grammatical sense is from 1660s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context astrology astronomy English) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptical longitude). 2 (context grammar English) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech). 3 (context grammar English) Relating to the conjunctive mood. 4 (context grammar English) Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French ''je'' or Irish ''sé#Irish'' 5 (context grammar of a verb English) subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact. 6 (context logic English) Of or relating to logical conjunction. 7 (context obsolete English) Closely united.
WordNet
adj. serving or tending to connect [ant: disjunctive]
involving the joint activity of two or more; "the attack was met by the combined strength of two divisions"; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong dring"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities" [syn: combined, concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united]
n. an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: conjunction, connective]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "conjunctive".
This persistent identity of certain units (or emphases, or points, or objects, or members -- call them what you will) of the experience continuum, is just one of those conjunctive --- 1 Technically, it seems classable as a 'fallacy of composition.
The result is that from difficulty to difficulty, the plain conjunctive experience has been discredited by both schools, the empiricists leaving things permanently disjoined, and the rationalist remedying the looseness by their Absolutes or Substances, or whatever other fictitious agencies of union may have employed.
Two parts, themselves disjoined, may nevertheless hang together by intermediaries with which they are severally connected, and the whole world eventually may hang together similarly, inasmuch as _some_ path of conjunctive transition by which to pass from one of its parts to another may always be discernible.
It gets rid of any need for an absolute of the Bradleyan type (avowedly sterile for intellectual purposes) by insisting that the conjunctive relations found within experience are faultlessly real.
Verbs can be in the Indicative mood, or Interrogative, Subjunctive, Optative, Conjunctive, Infinitive.