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conjunctive, a. and n.|kənˈdʒʌŋktɪv|
[ad. L. conjunctīv-us, f. conjunct- ppl. stem: see conjunct and -ive. In F. conjonctif, -ive (16th c.).]
A. adj.
1. Having the property or effect of conjoining; serving to conjoin or unite; connective. conjunctive tissue: connective tissue.
1581Lambarde Eiren. iii. i. (1588) 315 The power giuen by the Statute..was delivered with such conjunctive and generall words, viz. To the Shirife and other the Kings Ministers. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. v. 240 All the Navell therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 126 A wire united the extremities of the pile..and the wire from its application receives the name of ‘conjunctive wire’. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 10 Conjunctive Tissue, ordinarily Cellular Membrane or Areolar Tissue. 1879Sala in Daily Tel. 12 June, In 1812 the conjunctive waterway called the Regent's Canal was commenced.
2. Conjunct, conjoined, united; = conjunct 1.
1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 374 Let vs be coniunctiue in our reuenge, against him. 1694Child Disc. Trade (ed. 4) 103 All must be conjunctive, but one body politick, or the work will never be done. 1727Thomson Summer (1738) 1178 To live like Brothers, and conjunctive all Embellish Life. 1884Kendal Merc. & Times 3 Oct. 5/6 His conjunctive admission that he was not prepared to propose any substitute was received with considerable laughter.
†b. Having a relation of conjunction or union.
1602Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 14 She's so coniunctiue to my life and soule; That as the Starre moues not but in his Sphere, I could not but by her.
c. Of or pertaining to united action; done in conjunction; joint; = conjunct 2.
1694Falle Jersey iv. 106 Make conjunctive Records of their Proceedings with them. a1720Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) II. 87 Content with a conjunctive Sovereignty. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Sheffield Wks. III. 123 He voted for the conjunctive sovereignty, upon this principle, that he thought the title of the prince and his consort equal.
3. Gram.
a. Having the function of connecting words or clauses, connective; of the nature of a conjunction.
b. Having the function of uniting the sense as well as the construction, copulative, as in conjunctive conjunction.
a1667Jer. Taylor Wks. I. xxiii. (R.), I am induc'd fully to this understanding of St. Paul's words by the conjunctive particle [ἤ] which he uses. 1751Harris Hermes Wks. (1841) 187 Though all conjunctions conjoin sentences, yet, with respect to the sense, some are conjunctive, and some disjunctive. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 186 It could not be carried into effect, without construing the word or in a conjunctive sense. 1879Bain Higher Eng. Gram. 101 Therefore serves the office of..a conjunctive adverb.
c. Applied to that form or ‘mood’ of the verb which can be used only in conjunction with another verb, indicative, imperative, or also conjunctive (as in a hypothetical sentence).
Both modus conjunctīvus and m. subjunctīvus were used by the Latin Grammarians of the 4th c. Isidore Orig. i. viii. 4 (a 640) has only conjunctīvus, ‘quia ei conjungitur aliquid, ut locutio plena sit’. Littré cites subjonctif ou conjonctif from Meigret 1550. In English use Subjunctive was the usual name until comparatively recent times. It is now used by some in a narrower sense than Conjunctive: see quot. 1871.
1730–6Bailey (folio), The Conjunctive (or Subjunctive) Mood of a Verb. 1755Johnson, Conjunctive, adj...(In grammar.) The mood of a verb, used subsequently to a conjunction. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 152 Some grammarians apply, what is called the conjunctive termination, to the persons of the principal verb, and to its auxiliaries, through all the tenses of the subjunctive mood. 1871Publ. Sch. Lat. Gram. 96 The Conjunctive Mood is for conceptive statement: as gaudeam si absit. When this Mood appears in principal construction, we call it the pure conjunctive, as gaudeam: when it depends on another Verb, it is called Subjunctive, as absit. Ibid. 167 Examples of the Conjunctive Mood used Subjunctively.
4. Logic. Applied to a complex (hypothetical) proposition in which the clauses are related as antecedent and consequent; also to a syllogism which has such a proposition for its major premise; conditional.
c1848Sir W. Hamilton Logic II. App. 369 The Conjunctive and Disjunctive forms of Hypothetical reasoning are reducible to immediate inferences. 1849― Ibid. 378 Hypotheticals (Conjunctive and Disjunctive Syllogism). 1866–87Fowler Deduct. Logic 112. Ibid. 115 The most common form..of a conjunctive syllogism is that in which the major is a conjunctive, and the minor a simple proposition. 1888Hatch Hibbert Lect. (1891) 131 (transl. Greek author) If one advances any express statement of the divine Scripture, they try to find out whether it can form a conjunctive or a disjunctive hypothetical.
†5. conjunctive membrane, conjunctive tunic: = conjunctiva.
1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1095 In the conjunctive membrane, or white of the eye as they commonly call it. 1834Good Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 207 A free abstraction of blood by Leeches applied to the conjunctive tunic itself.
B. n.
1. Gram.
a. A conjunctive or connective word, a conjunction; a ‘conjunctive’ or copulative conjunction (see A. 3).
b. The conjunctive mood.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. (Arb.) 186 Euery clause is knit and coupled together with a coniunctiue. 1590Swinburne Testaments 253 This disiunctiue or, standeth properly, and is not changed into a coniunctiue. 1756Connoisseur No. 138 The significant conjunctive and. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 313 A double conjunctive, in two correspondent clauses..is sometimes made use of: as, ‘Had he done this, he had escaped’.
2. Logic. A conjunctive proposition or syllogism: see A. 4.
1848Sir W. Hamilton Logic II. App. 372 The Conjunctives are conditional inasmuch as..the quality of one proposition is made dependent on another.
†3. Anat. = conjunctiva. Obs.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. v. 54 note, There are six tunicles belonging to the eye: The first called the conjunctive. 1751Spry in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 19 The conjunctive became greatly inflamed.
4. Math. ‘A syzygetic function of a given set of functions.’
1853Sylvester in Phil. Trans. CXLIII. i. 410, I demonstrate that the most general form of a conjunctive of any degree in x will be a linear function of the Bezoutics. Ibid. 543 Any function which universally, and subject to no cases of exception, vanishes when a certain number of other functions all vanish together, must be a conjunctive (i.e. a syzygetic function), or a root of a conjunctive of such functions. |