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t. [CONJUGATE, a.] *1. Ord. Lang.: To join together, to unite closely, to connect in marriage. power and occasion to conjugate at pleasure the Norman and the Saxon houses."-Sir. H. Wotton: Kings of England. 2. Gram.: To inflect or decline verbs through their various voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons. còn-ju-gā-těd, pa. par. & a. [CONJUGATE.] *conjugated compounds, s . pl . Chem.: Also called copulated compounds. A term introduced in 1839, by the French chemists Laurent and Gerhardt, to designate "all such compounds as are formed by the direct union of two bodies, with elimination of water, and are capable of reproducing the original bodies by again taking up the elements of water." The term is now out of use. còn-ju-gā-ting, pr. par., a. & s. [CONJUGATE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: Gram.: The act of inflecting a verb; conjugation. conjugating cells, s. pl. Bot.: Two cells in some Mucoriai; one at the top of each of two club-shaped bodies, as pre ed to one another by their ends, and containing protoplasm. The conjugating cell at the end of each becomes separated from the rest, after which the partition-wall between them disappears, and they unite into a reproductive cell called the zygospore. ( Thomé .)