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United; conjoined; concurrent. [Archaic]

ssociation; league. He will unite the white rose and the red: Smille heaven upon his fair conjunction. Shak. Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength but as he acts in society and conjunction with others. South.

Relating to a conjunction.

covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrance.

Of or pertaining to the conjunctiva.

Closely united. [Obs.] Shak. Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood. -- Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded prot…

In conjunction or union; together. Sir T. Browne.

The state or quality of being conjunctive. Johnson.

Inflammation of the conjunctiva.

In union; conjointly; unitedly; together. Sir W. Hamilton.

The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination. The conjuncture of philosophy and divinity. Hobbes. A fit conjuncture or circumstances. Addison.

Situated under the conjunctiva.

Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv.

ival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.

on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions. -- As`yn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

d and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.