conjoined

adjective

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Etymology: From conjoin + -ed.

Of persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically.
“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 conjoined with an hard iron lock!”
“Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth.”
Joined or bound together; united (in a relationship).
“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.”
Combined.
“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, […]”

Etymology: From conjoin + -ed.