conjoint (konjoint)

and n. [ F. conjoindre, etc.), conjoin: see conjoin, v., and cf. conjunct, a later form of conjoint, directly from the L.] I. a. United; connected; a ociated; joined together; conjunct. She and the sun with influence conjoint Wield the huge axle of the whirling earth. Glover, Sir Isaac Newton. Conjoint degrees, motion, etc., in music. See conjunct. II. n. In law, a person connected with another in a joint interest or obligation, as a spouse or a co-tenant. conjugate group are the vegetative cells of the plant, while in Zoö sporeæ conjugation is effected by means of special, actively moving cells (zoöspores). See Zygosporeæ, and cut under conjugation. gar = conjugate (kor te (kon'jö-gāt), v.; pret. and pp. conju gated, conjugating. [L. conjugating. [L. conjugatus, pp. of conjugare (It. congiugare = Sp. Pg. conju = geth F. conjuguer ), join together, yoke: Those drawing as well marriage as wardship gave him both power and occasion to conjugate at pleasure the Norman and Saxon houses. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ. 2. In gram., to inflect (a verb) through all its various forms, as voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons, or so many of them as there may be. This use has its origin in the fact that in inflected languages a verb is conjugated by conjoining certain inflectional syllables with the root. II. in trans. In biol ., to perform the act of conjugation; specifically, in bot ., to unite and form a zygospore. A greater and greater degree of differentiation between the cells which conjugate can be traced, thus leading ap parently to the development of the two sexual forms. Darwin, and Self Fertilisation, p. 409. then The Paramœcia a emble in great numbers, conjugate in pairs, their anterior ends being closely united. Balbiani , tr. in Huxley's Anat. Invert., p. 99. conjugate (kon'jö-gāt), a . and n. [L. conjugatus, pp.: see the verb.] I. a. 1. United in pairs; joined together; coupled.-2. In bot ., applied to a pinnate leaf which has only one pair of leaflets. - 3. In chem ., containing two or more radicals acting the part of a single one.4. In gram . and rhet . , kindred in meaning ashav until it is modified or overthrown by further information. Oft, when the world imagine women stray, The sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way. Pope , R. of the L., i. 91. As long as men have liberty to examine and contradict one another, one may partly conjecture , by comparing their words, on which side the truth is like to lie. Baxter , Reliquiæ. In South-sea days not happier, when surmised The lord of you sands, than if now excised. Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 133. Of twenty yere of age he was, I ge e . Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 82. This gentleman is happily arriv'd, My mind presumes , for his own good, and yours. Shak ., T. of the S., i. 2. II. in trans . To form conjectures; surmise; IMG:content-1078.png:[blocks in formation]