▪ I. conjoin, v.
(kənˈdʒɔɪn)
Forms: 4–5 conjoigne(n, 4–7 -joyne, (6 Sc. -jone, -jonne, -june), 6–7 -joine, 7–8 -joyn, 6– conjoin; also pa. pple. 4–7 conjoint.
[ME. conjoign-en, -joyn-e, a. F. conjoign-, stem of conjoindre (pr. pple. conjoign-ant, pres. conj. conjoigne) = It. congiungere, -giugnere:—L. conjung-ĕre to join together, f. con- + jungĕre to join. Cf. conjoint, conjunct.]
I. trans.
1. To join together; to connect, unite. a. in physical connexion.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iii. xii. 102 Þe same diuersite..moste departen and unioignen þe þinges þat ben conioigned. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 299 Speyne..whom the hilles Pirene conioynethe of the northe parte to Fraunce Narbonense. 1571 Digges Pantom. iv. xxv. G g ij b, Streight lines conioyning all the trigonall bases centers. a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 460 York is an ancient city, built on both sides of the river Ouse, conjoined with a bridge. 1725 Pope Odyss. ii. 173 Swift they descend, with wing to wing conjoin'd. 1869 Eng. Mechanic 3 Dec. 271/2 It conjoins or connects the ball and other parts. |
b. in non-physical connexion.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iii. iv. 73 Uertue transporteþ dignite anon to þilke man to whiche she hir self is conioigned. 1548 Hall Chron. 241 To conjoyne the whole countrey of Flanders..to the croune of Fraunce. 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. (1634) 1 The knowledge of God and of ourselves, are things conjoyned. 1645 Fuller Good Th. in Bad T. (1841) 56 The same particle may conjoin the words and yet disjoin the sense. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 143 ¶10 Where the same ideas are conjoined without any..necessary coherence. 1864 Bowen Logic i. 10 In Reasoning, it compares, disjoins or conjoins Judgments. |
† c. in marriage. Obs.
| 1447 O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 48 Conjoyned be maryage. 1514 Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. 10 Our Lorde conjoyned them both as man and wyfe. 1599 Shakes. Much Ado iv. i. 13 Any inward impediment why you should not be conioyned. 1649 Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iv. viii. (1654) 362 This act of conjoyning the married persons in wedlock. |
2. To join in action, relation, purpose, feeling, etc.; to combine, unite, ally.
| c 1386 Chaucer Moder of God 131 God..of his noblesse Conjoyned hath you..As modir and sone. 1513 Douglas æneis xi. iii. 67 We sall do fully all that evyr we may, The to conione with King Latyn in hy. 1588 Babington Exp. Lord's Prayer vi. (1596) 270 Whome a like punishment conioyned, a farre vnlike cause disioyned. 1795 Southey Joan of Arc viii. 616 Those valiant troops..with us Conjoin'd might press upon the vanquish'd foe. 1835 Lytton Rienzi i. iv, [As] one among the Roman deputies to Avignon, he had been conjoined with Petrarch. |
† 3. To combine, unite into one substance. Obs.
| 1552 Lyndesay Monarche iv. 5593 All Reasonabyll Creature Sall suddantlye start vp attonis, Coniunit with Saull, Flesche, Blude, & Bonis. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. H ij, I thocht it necessar to conionne y⊇ awld kallendar with y⊇ reformeit. 1605 Verstegan Dec. Intell. iv. (1628) 98 Sometime it was conioyned together in one same substance. 1671 J. Webster Metallogr. iv. 75 Both being conjoyned, doth draw forth a certain unctuous spirit. |
II. intr.
4. To become joined together; to unite.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man viii. 109 A hurt..vnto the Nerue before it enter into the Muscle..can not by any meanes conioyne, or knitte together agayne. 1611 Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. x. (1614) 19/1 Many fresh springs..meet and conjoine in the vallies. a 1711 Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 259 As Male and Female Palms, whose Roots conjoin. 1843 Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 167 [They] do conjoin there, or nowhere else! 1885 Manch. Exam. 14 Oct. 3/1 He may trace the course of these many causes until they conjoin in the great revolt of to-day. |
† b. Of heavenly bodies: cf. conjunction 3. Obs.
| 1643 Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §14 To conjoyne and obscure each other. 1647 Cowley Mistress, Impossibilities, As Stars..when they conjoin, Change..the World's Estate. |
† c. To unite sexually. Obs.
| 1594 Shakes. Rich. III, v. iv. 31. 1610 Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 524 They were put forth of Paradise, and then they did first conjoyne, and beget them. |
† 5. To combine in action; to co-operate. Obs.
| 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 12 (§1) Bothe theyr auctoritees and iurisdictions do conioyn together in the due administracion of Justice. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 63 This part of his conioynes With my disease, and helpes to end me. a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 408 He conjoined with the earl of Northumberland..and others against king Henry the Fourth. |
¶ Erroneously for enjoin.
| 1568 Tancred & Gism. iii. ii. in Hazl. Dodsley VII. 53 She..then conjoin'd me to conceal the same. 1608–11 Bp. Hall Epist. iii. ii. Wks. (1627) 318 Her crowne; which if she were conioyned to fetch thorow the flames of hell, her faith would not sticke at the condition. |
▪ II. [conjoin, a.
Explained as: Conjoined. App. some error for conjoined or conjoint, or a misunderstanding of conjoin used as a verb.
| 1864 Webster, Conjoin, a. Conjoined. (Obs.) Holland. [Hence in Ogilvie (Annandale) and Century Dict.]] |