单词 | conjunct |
释义 | conjunctadj.n. A. adj. I. As past participle. 1. Joined together, conjoined, united, combined in conjunction. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > specific predicatively joint1390 conjunct?a1475 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 313 Scicille was coniuncte somme tyme to Ytaly. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 74 b Vnder these Captaines was warre coniunct in Sardinia, and a fielde fought against the Affricans. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxii. 14 I am doubtfull that you haue beene coniunct and bosom'd with hir. View more context for this quotation 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Iiv The Ile of Buden (then conjunct hereto). 1695 S. Patrick Comm. Genesis 302 The Lord himself [was]..conjunct with the Angels whom he imployed in this Embassie. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) i. 26 The number nine..the perfect number, conjunct of threes. II. As an adjective: joined together or associated. 2. a. Joined together, conjoined, combined. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [adjective] > combined conjoint1393 redacta1398 combinate1583 combined1603 social1620 solida1626 consolidate1638 conjunct1649 alligateda1676 combinated1757 amalgamated1827 amalgamate1849 consolidateda1850 1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iv. iii. 608 They are conjunct causes. 1765 London Chron. 28 Apr. 416 The conjunct fleets of France and Spain. 1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin xii. 174 The conjunct..influences of fire and strong drink. b. Joined or associated with another; esp. in a more or less subordinate capacity; ‘joint’. 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 1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Feodum In this case the husband is proprietar, and the wife is conjunct fear, or liferentar. c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 171 To send ane ambassador conjunct to Scotland. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 162 He became a conjunct person relative to the guilt, by undertaking the charges of our nature. 1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 468 The earl of Scarborough..is to be conjunct general of the forces..with duke Schonberg. 1753 Scots Mag. Aug. 421/1 Mr. John Flockhart, his conjunct agent. 1885 A. Christison et al. Life Sir R. Christison I. 76 The appointment of Dr. Allison in 1821 as conjunct professor and successor. 3. a. Constituted by conjunction of several elements, or persons; joint, united. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [adjective] > associated for common purpose federeda1382 confedered1528 conjunct1529 adjoinate1543 confederate1555 in league with1565 associate1600 banded1601 combined1603 colleagued1605 confederated1605 contesserate1606 conjunctivea1616 conspired1619 coalesced1765 co-allied1765 leagued1781 federalized1793 federated1793 in cahoot(s) (with)18.. interleagued1844 federal1867 1529 in Burnet Hist. Ref. II. 96 I have received your Conjunct and several Letters. 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική v. 100 Whose Testimony though conjunct, yet in value is but single. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 27 Jealousy and discord were the effects of their conjunct authority. 1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 223 It must be ascertained by a conjunct analysis..of the whole of history and the whole of human nature. 1885 A. Christison et al. Life Sir R. Christison I. 137 Our conjunct experimental enquiry on poisoning with oxalic acid. b. conjunct consonant or 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. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > Devanagari conjunct consonant or letter1857 1857 M. Williams Sanskrit Gram. 1 The compound or conjunct consonants may be multiplied to the extent of four or five hundred. 1862 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 14 The conjunct in hastya could not but at once suggest itself. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > types of cause efficient cause1393 conjunct causec1400 final causec1400 meritorious cause1526 matter1570 deficient cause1581 effectrix1583 formal cause1586 material cause1586 final cause1587 conservant cause1588 efficient1593 effective1610 defective cause1624 proximate cause1641 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > cause of disease conjunct causec1400 continent cause1605 procatarctic1666 procatarxis1681 germ1700 predisponent1771 c1400 Lanfranc'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. 1643 Maximes Unfolded 24 The procreant cause which is immediate and conjunct, is the consent of the people. 1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 290 The Spirit while Living is the near or Conjunct cause of their Motion. 5. Scots Law. Categories » a. Joint.See 1597 at sense A. 2b, 1753 at sense A. 2b. b. Belonging to several persons jointly, as conjunct rights, conjunct fee, etc. ΚΠ 1494 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 211 Ane charter of coniunct feftment to Alexander Reid and his wiff. 1535 Sc. Acts Jas. V (1597) §14 Conjunct-fee, and life-rentes. 1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. II. 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 n. an associate in an offence or charge; esp. one so nearly related to another as to be liable to the presumption of collusion, or connivance in acts done in view of insolvency. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > [noun] > practitioner insidiator1539 collusioner1562 night-crow1570 coviner1593 confident person1621 conjunct person1621 colluder1645 intriguer1667 packer1771 intriguist1830 1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI c. 18 All alienations, dispositions, assignations, and translations whatsoever..to any coniunct or confident person, without true, just, and necessarie causes..after the contracting of lawfull debts from true creditors [the Court of Session will decreet] to haue beene..null and of none availe, force, nor effect. 1649 [see sense A. 2b]. d. conjunct proof, 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. ΚΠ 1760 in Scotsman 20 Aug. (1885) 5/3 Allows the city a conjunct probation thereanent. 1864 Daily Tel. 14 June She was only called for the conjunct proof. 1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 101 §35 Allowing each of the parties..a conjunct probation with reference to the claims of such other parties. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > [noun] > equal or constant > between adjacent terms continual proportion1557 conjunct proportion1594 continual proportionals1753 continued proportion1796 continued proportionals1796 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. xviii. f. 20v Coniunct [Proportion] differeth not from Geometricall Progression before taught. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. *3 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. 7. Music. conjunct degrees: see conjoint adj. conjunct motion, conjunct tetrachords: see quots. ΚΠ 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 128 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. 1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xiv. 522 A third Tetrachord was added to the septichord Lyre, which was either conjunct with it, making Ten Chords, or disjunct, making Eleven. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music 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. B. n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > a complex whole > a connected whole conjunct1581 copulative1621 1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 8v Profitable or necessary for the coniunct of mans lyfe heere in earth. 2. A person or thing conjoined or associated with another. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > that which accompanies purtenancea1382 accessory1429 retinue?a1439 accessaryc1475 companion1533 annexe?1541 hanger-ona1555 supply1567 copemate1581 complement1586 fere1593 adjective1597 annexment1604 annexary1605 attendant1607 adherence1610 adjacent1610 wife1616 fellower1620 coincident1626 attendancy1654 associate1658 appanage1663 conjunct1667 perquisite1667 familiar1668 satellite1702 accompaniment1709 accompanying1761 side dish1775 obbligato1825 shadow1830 rider1859 gadget1917 1667 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qual. The Conjuncts of the smallest parts of Matter. 1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 182 Absolute Supremacie..incapable either of superior or conjunct. 1714 in T. Creech tr. Lucretius De Natura Rerum (new ed.) Pref. sig. C3v Lucretius, enumerating all the Conjuncts and Events, or Properties and Accidents, of the Epicurean Atoms. 1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 336 As some of your conjuncts and condisciples would fain persuade us. a1871 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. (1876) ii. 38 With all their associated conjuncts and appendages. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > accidental altering conjunct1609 false relation1869 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 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 n. ΚΠ 1854 S. T. 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. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > conjunctive or non-conjunctive proposition conjunctivea1856 determinant1887 conjunction1903 conjunct1921 non-conjunction1926 adjunction1932 1921 W. E. Johnson Logic I. iii. 27 The components thus joined will be called conjuncts. 1954 I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic ii. 10 Two statements so combined are called conjuncts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.c1400 |
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