Meanings
- not comparableOf 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!
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Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth.
1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XI.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 256Blood vessels are fused to increase circulation and these conjoined or grafted veins and arteries make great painful lumps which have to be soaked daily.
1982, Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, New York: Pocket Books, page 184These 'signatures' (in Arabic ‘alāmāt; singular, ‘alāma) typically consisted of a phrase of up to half a dozen conjoined words written as a monogram in which the reed pen usually maintained contact with the parchment throughout.
2009, Alex Metcalfe, chapter 10, in The Muslims of Medieval Italy, Edinburgh University Press, page 196 - not comparableJoined 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.
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signatures F3, recto – F3, verso2 more examples
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.
1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Part II, p. 83But as representatives of a loosely conjoined nation split in a hundred ways by personal, tribal, religious and economic rivalries and jealousies, no two of them went to the conference agreed on what independence should mean.
1957 June 3, “E Pluribus Nigeria”, in Time - not comparableCombined.
Their garb and stillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and herd-like—as in the pasture—"forty feeding like one."
1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Quaker’s Meeting”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 1101 more example
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, […]
1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, Washington, D.C., page 45
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of conjoin
Synonyms & antonyms
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Finnish yhtenäinen, yhteenliitetty
- yhtenäinenjoined together physically
- yhteenliitettyjoined together physically
- yhteenkasvanutjoined together physically
- siamilainenjoined together physically
Irish comhcheangailte
- comhcheangailtejoined together physically
Russian сросшийся, соединённый
- сросшийся (srosšijsja)joined together physically
- соединённый (sojedinjónnyj)joined together physically
Spanish chachaguato, chacho
- chachaguatojoined together physically
- chachojoined together physically
- siamésjoined together physically
Swedish siamesisk, sammanvuxen
- siamesiskjoined together physically
- sammanvuxenjoined together physically
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