GDict

conjoined

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adj
  1. 1

    Of persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically.not-comparable

    • 1580s, Ovid, Elegia VI, Book I, translated by Christopher Marlowe, in Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations, Stephen Orgel (ed.), Penguin, 1971, p. 110, And farewell cruel posts, rough threshold's block, / And doors conjo
  2. 2

    Joined or bound together; united (in a relationship).not-comparable

    • If either of you know any inward impediment why you ſhould not be conioyned, I charge you on your ſoules to vtter it.
    • O my lord / The glory of whose new state is hidden from us, / Pray for us of your charity; now in the sight of God / Conjoined with all the saints and martyrs gone before you, / Remember us.
  3. 3

    Combined.not-comparable

    • Their garb and stillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and herd-like—as in the pasture—"forty feeding like one."
    • I have seen another woman who, from taste and necessity conjoined, has gone into practical affairs, carries on a mechanical business, partly works at it herself, […]
verb
  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of conjoinform-ofparticiplepast

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