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conjoin

verb

  1. join together
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kənˈd͡ʒɔɪn/

noun

Etymology: From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from con- (“together”) + iungo (“join”). Equivalent to con- + join.

  1. One of the words or phrases that are coordinated by a conjunction.

    Et is the general coordinator that can be used for all types of coordination, both clauses and constituents, regardless of the semantic relation between the conjoins.

  2. A reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.

    Attention must also be given to understanding why certain sites yield a low number of conjoins.

verb

Etymology: From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from con- (“together”) + iungo (“join”). Equivalent to con- + join.

  1. To join together; to unite; to combine.

    They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.

    During an ongoing pandemic conjoined with an intensifying operational crisis inside U.S. prisons, mass clemency should be the first step of many toward a decarceral agenda that could still––if he’s bold enough to seize the opportunity––define Biden’s presidency.

  2. To marry.

    I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.

  3. To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
  4. To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
  5. To unite, to join, to league.

    Our armie will be forty thouſand ſtrong, When Tamburlain and braue Theridamas Haue met vs by the riuer Araris: And all conioin’d to meete the witleſſe King, That now is marching neere to Parthia.

    And the Body of one Dead; — a temple where the Hero-soul once was and now is not: Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder; Supernaturalism brought home to the very dullest; Eternity laid open, and the nether Darkness and the upper Light-Kingdoms; — do conjoin there, or exist nowhere!