conjoined en · ADJ
Etymology
From conjoin + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically.
These '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 196:1580s, 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!
Blood 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 184: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 256:
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(not-comparable) Joined or bound together; united (in a relationship).
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. 83: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, verso:But 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:
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(not-comparable) Combined.
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 110: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:
Deriveds
conjoined twin · unconjoined · nonconjoined · conjoinedly
Translations (12)
es siamés (joined together physically) · ga comhcheangailte (joined together physically) · fi yhteenliitetty (joined together physically) · fi siamilainen (joined together physically) · es chacho (joined together physically) · es chachaguato (joined together physically) · fi yhteenkasvanut (joined together physically) · ru соединённый (joined together physically) · ru сросшийся (joined together physically) · sv sammanvuxen (joined together physically) · fi yhtenäinen (joined together physically) · sv siamesisk (joined together physically)