conjoined
/kˌɑndʒˈɔɪnd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically.
adj
Joined or bound together; united (in a relationship).
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of conjoin
Example Sentences
- "1580s, Ovid, Elegia VI, Book I, translated by Christopher Marlowe, in Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations, Stephen Orgel (ed.), Penguin, 1971, p. 110, And farewell cruel posts, rough threshold's block, / And doors conjoined with an hard iron lock!"
- "Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth."
- "Blood vessels are fused to increase circulation and these conjoined or grafted veins and arteries make great painful lumps which have to be soaked daily."
- "These 'signatures' (in Arabic ‘alāmāt; singular, ‘alāma) typically consisted of a phrase of up to half a dozen conjoined words written as a monogram in which the reed pen usually maintained contact with the parchment throughout."
- "If either of you know any inward impediment why you ſhould not be conioyned, I charge you on your ſoules to vtter it."
- "O my lord / The glory of whose new state is hidden from us, / Pray for us of your charity; now in the sight of God / Conjoined with all the saints and martyrs gone before you, / Remember us."
Etymology
From conjoin + -ed.