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conjunct, a. (n.)|kənˈdʒʌŋkt| [ad. L. conjunct-us, pa. pple. of conjungĕre: it is thus a doublet of conjoint, and virtually of conjoined.] A. as pa. pple. Joined together, conjoined, united, combined in conjunction.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 313 Scicille was coniuncte somme tyme to Ytaly. 1605Shakes. Lear v. i. 12, I am doubtful that you have been conjunct And bosom'd with her. 1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Hist. Ivstine 74 b, Vnder these Captaines was warre coniunct in Sardinia, and a fielde fought against the Affricans. 1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 85 The Isle of Ruden, then conjunct hereto. 1695Bp. Patrick Comm. Gen. 302 The Lord himself [was]..conjunct with the Angels whom he imployed in this Embassie. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. i. 26 The number nine..the perfect number, conjunct of threes. B. as adj. 1. Joined together, conjoined, combined.
1650Baxter Saint's R. iv. iii. §5 They are conjunct causes. 1765Lond. Chron. 28 Apr. 416 The conjunct fleets of France and Spain. 1829T. L. Peacock Misfort. Elphin 174 The conjunct..influences of fire and strong drink. b. Joined or associated with another; esp. in a more or less subordinate capacity; ‘joint’.
1582–8Hist. James VI (1804) 171 To send ane ambassador conjunct to Scotland. 1597Skene De Verb. Signif. s.v. Feodum, In this case the husband is proprietar, and the wife is conjunct fear, or liferentar. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. 162 He became a conjunct person relative to the guilt, by undertaking the charges of our nature. 1695Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 468 The earl of Scarborough..is to be conjunct general of the forces..with duke Schonberg. 1753Scots Mag. Aug. 421/1 Mr. John Flockhart, his conjunct agent. 1885Life Sir R. Christison I. 76 The appointment of Dr. Allison in 1821 as conjunct professor and successor. 2. Constituted by conjunction of several elements, or persons; joint, united.
1529in Burnet Hist. Ref. II. 96, I have received your Conjunct and several Letters. 1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. v. 100 Whose Testimony though conjunct, yet in value is but single. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. I. i. 27 Jealousy and discord were the effects of their conjunct authority. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 223 It must be ascertained by a conjunct analysis..of the whole of history and the whole of human nature. 1885Life Sir R. Christison I. 137 Our conjunct experimental enquiry on poisoning with oxalic acid. b. conjunct consonant or conjunct letter (also, absol., conjunct): in the Devanāgarī Alphabet, a written character in which two, three, or more consonants (without intervening vowels) are combined, a consonant combination: as sm, smy, tsmy.
1857Monier Williams Sanscr. Gramm. 1 The compound or conjunct consonants may be multiplied to the extent of four or five hundred. 1862F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 14 The conjunct in hastya could not but at once suggest itself. †3. conjunct cause: the immediate or direct cause. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. A.) 64 Þer ben ij. maner of causis þat makiþ blood to blede out of a mannys body; þe oon cause is clepid—cause conjuncte; & þe toþer—cause antecedent. c1643Maximes Unfolded 24 The procreant cause which is immediate and conjunct, is the consent of the people. 1683Salmon Doron Med. i. 290 The Spirit while Living is the near or Conjunct cause of their Motion. 4. Sc. Law. a. Joint. (See 1597, 1753 in 1 b.) b. Belonging to several persons jointly, as conjunct rights, conjunct fee, etc.
1494Acc. Ld. Treas. Scot. (1877) I. 211 (Jam. Supp.) Ane charter of coniunct feftment to Alexander Reid and his wiff. 1535Sc. Acts Jas. V (1597) §14 Conjunct-fee, and life-rentes. 1773Erskine Inst. Law Scot. iii. viii. §35 (Jam.) Where an entail is made, or any right conceived, in favour of two strangers, in conjunct fee and liferent. c. conjunct person: an associate in an offence or charge; esp. one so nearly related to another as to be liable to the presumption of collusion, or connivence in acts done in view of insolvency.
1621[see confident 7 b]. Cf. 1649 in 1 b. d. conjunct proof, conjunct probation: evidence (or leading of evidence) restricted to the rebuttal of the averments of the opposing party in an action, but not introducing new points.
1760in Scotsman 20 Aug. (1885) 5/3 Allows the city a conjunct probation thereanent. 1864Daily Tel. 14 June, She was only called for the conjunct proof. 1868Act 31–2 Vict. c. 101 §35 Allowing each of the parties..a conjunct probation with reference to the claims of such other parties. †5. Math. conjunct proportion: continued proportion. Obs.
1594Blundevil Exerc. i. xviii. (ed. 7) 42 Coniunct [Proportion] differeth not from Geometricall Progression, before taught. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. Annot., Coniunct proportion, is when the middle tearme is twice taken thus, as 16 to 8, so are 8 to 4, and 4 to 2, and 2 to 1. 6. Mus. conjunct degrees: see conjoint. conjunct motion, c. tetrachords: see quots.
1694W. Holder Harmony (1731) 97 The Ancients ascended from the Unison to an Octave by two Systemes of Tetrachords or Fourths. These were either Conjunct, when they began the Second Tetrachord at the Fourth Chord, viz. with the last Note of the first Tetrachord..Or else the two Tetrachords were disjunct, the Second taking its beginning at the Fifth Chord. 1721A. Malcolm Treat. Mus. (1730) 522 A third Tetrachord was added to the septichord Lyre, which was either conjunct with it, making ten Chords, or disjunct, making Eleven. 1880Grove Dict. Mus. II. 377 The motions of a single part are classified according as the successive steps do or do not exceed the limits of a degree of the scale at a time, the former being called ‘disjunct’ and the latter ‘conjunct’ motion. C. n. †1. A conjoined whole. Obs.
1581W. Stafford Exam. Compl. i. (1876) 23 Profitable or necessary for the coniunct of mans life heare in earth. 2. A person or thing conjoined or associated with another.
1667Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. 7 The Conjuncts of the smallest parts of Matter. 1671True Nonconf. 182 Absolute Supremacie..incapable either of superior or conjunct. 1682Creech Pref. to Lucretius (Jod.), Lucretius, enumerating all the conjuncts and events, or properties and accidents of the Epicurean atoms. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 336 As some of your conjuncts and condisciples would fain persuade us. a1871Grote Eth. Fragm. ii. (1876) 38 With all their associated conjuncts and appendages. †3. Mus. The singing of a note foreign to the key; an accidental raising or lowering of a note (see accidental A. 5, B. b.). Obs.
1609Dowland Ornith. Microl. 24 A Coniunct is this, to sing a Voyce in a Key which is not in it. Or it is the sodaine changing of a Tone into a Semitone, or a semitone into a Tone. 4. = conjuncture.
1854S. Dobell Balder xxviii. 188, I swear that what conjuncts, for bliss or bale, This sovereign hour determines, I accept As doom. 5. Logic. A conjoined term or proposition; one of the elements in a conjunction; = determinant n. 2 b.
1921W. E. Johnson Logic I. iii. 27 The components thus joined will be called conjuncts. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic ii. 10 Two statements so combined are called conjuncts. |