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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

reconjoin en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + conjoin.

Meanings

  1. To join or conjoin again.
    • Some have said that there was a generall soule, like unto a great body, from which all particular, soules were extracted, and returned thither; alwayes reconjoyning and entermingling themselves unto that universall matter[…]. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
    • Whether the propos'd Water, being in Glass-Vessels exactly luted together slowly and warily abstracted to a thickish substance; This being reconjoin'd to the distill'd Liquor, the Mineral Water will be redintegrated 1685, Robert Boyle, Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters:

Forms

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reconjoins Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
reconjoining Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reconjoined Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reconjoined Tense=Past lexicographic