conjoin

present singular third person conjoins · participle present conjoining · participle past conjoined · past conjoined

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

   They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.

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   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.

   2022 January 25, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate

2. transitiveTo marry.

   I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.

   Synonyms: bewed

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

   Synonyms: affix

5. intransitiveTo 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.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i

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   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!

   1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XVI, St. Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

plural conjoins

1. grammarOne 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.

   2021, Harm Pinkster, The Oxford Latin Syntax, volumes 2, The Complex Sentence and Discourse, →ISBN, page 621

   Synonyms: conjunct

2. archaeologyA reassembled bone, stone or ceramic artifact.

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

   1984, Ellen M. Kroll, Glynn Ll. Isaac, “Configurations of artifacts and bones at early Pleistocene sites in East Africa”, in Harold Hietala, editor, Intrasite Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, →ISBN, page 23