单词 | conjoined |
释义 | conjoinedadj. a. Joined together, united, combined; allied. conjoined manipulation (Medicine): bi-manual examination. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [adjective] conversanta1340 associate1398 consociate1471 sociate1526 adjoinate1543 conjoined1570 consortinga1592 conjunct1597 combined1603 commercing1610 associated1611 bound up in or with1611 comitant1614 unsequestered1654 cohering1665 consociated1671 mingling1812 combinatea1861 associatory1880 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] knitc1440 junct1475 joined1483 conjunctivea1616 annexed1662 conjoined1835–6 1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catech. (1853) 187 With conjoined hearts and prayers we do..call upon our common Father. 1617 G. Wither Fidelia in Juvenilia (1633) 470 To disunite hearts so conjoyn'd as our. 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon iv. 189 Nor have we separated our selves, from the conjoyned communion of the Christian World in any thing. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 6/1 The conjoined tendons. 1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) vii. 167 The conjoined levers..present no smooth surfaces. 1875 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. X. 10 The peculiarity of conjoined manipulation is, that the organs to be examined, are pressed between both hands. b. Occurring together in space or time. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [adjective] > occurring together (of circumstances) conjoined1587 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 150/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II By meanes of which their conioined aduancement, there entred a verie feruent affection..betweene them. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xvii. 264 That because two things are always conjoined, one must be the cause of the other. c. Heraldry. Said of two or more charges of the same kind connected together. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > conjoined conjoined1610 joinant?1828 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xx. 159 The Field is Ruby, two Wings, Inuerted and conioined Topaz. 1823 J. Rutter Delineations of Fonthill p. xxii Gules, Seven Mascles conjoined, three, three, and one, Or. 1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) viii. 117 When hollow Charges, such as Annulets, are linked together, so as to form a chain, they are sometimes blazoned as Conjoined; they would however, be better described as Braced. d. Of heavenly bodies: In conjunction. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > position of planet > aspect > [adjective] > conjunction partile1610 synodic1654 conjunctional1665 synodical1669 syzygiacal1672 conjoined1815 syzygial1863 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 44 Signs and planets, in aspects sextile, quartile, trine, conjoined or opposite. Draft additions October 2001 conjoined twin n. each of two individuals born physically joined together, sometimes sharing some of their organs, and sometimes separable by surgery; a Siamese twin; usually in plural. ΚΠ 1916 Biol. Bull. 30 211 It is a matter of great importance to ascertain the condition of the function ridges in ‘conjoined’ twins, that is, twins which have never completely separated, but remain throughout life united by certain parts. 1937 H. H. Newman et al. Twins xiii. 355 Conjoined twins (Siamese twins) show marked differences in height, weight, features, and intelligence. 1959 Jrnl. Chronic Dis. 10 84 A wooden carving from the Solomon Islands suggests conjoined twins of the pygopagus type. 2000 Times 5 Sept. i. 3/3 Britain's top team are at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, where 17 pairs of Siamese (or ‘conjoined’) twins have been treated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1570 |
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