Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-JEC'TURE, n. [L. conjectura; Fr. conjecture; It. congettura, or conghiettura; Sp. conjetura; Port. conjectura, or, conjeitura. See Conjecto.]

1. Literally, a casting or throwing together of possible or probable events; or a casting of the mind to something future, or something past but unknown; a guess, formed on a supposed possibility or probability of a fact, or on slight evidence; preponderance of opinion without proof; surmise. We speak of future or unknown things by conjecture, and of probable or unfounded conjectures.
2. Idea; notion. – Shak.

CON-JEC'TURE, v.t.

To guess; to judge by guess, or by the probability or the possibility of a fact, or by very slight evidence; to form an opinion at random. What will be the issue of a war, we may conjecture, but can not know. He conjectured that some misfortune had happened.

CON-JEC'TUR-ED, pp.

Guessed; surmised.

CON-JEC'TUR-ER, n.

One who guesses; a guesser; one who forms or utters an opinion without proof. – Addison.

CON-JEC'TUR-ING, ppr.

Guessing; surmising.

CON-JOIN', v.t. [Fr. conjoindre; It. congiugnere, or congiungere; L. conjungo; con and jungo, to join. See Join.]

1. To join together, without any thing intermediate; to unite two or more persons or things in close connection; as, to conjoin friends; to conjoin man and woman in marriage. – Dryden. Shak.
2. To associate or connect. Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already. – Locke.

CON-JOIN', v.t.

To unite; to join to league. – Shak.

CON-JOIN'ED, pp.

Joined to or with; united; associated.

CON-JOIN'ING, ppr.

Joining together; uniting; connecting.

CON-JOINT', a.

United; connected; associated. Conjoint degees, in music, two notes which follow each other immediately in the order of the scale; as ut and re. – Johnson. Conjoint tetrachords, two tetrachords or fourths, where the same chord is the highest of one and the lowest of the other. – Encyc.

CON-JOINT'LY, adv.

Jointly; unitedly; in union; together. – Dryden.

CON-JOINT'NESS, n.

State of being joined or united.

CON'JU-GAL, a. [L. conjugalis, from conjugium, marriage; conjugo, to yoke or couple; con and jugo, id. See Join and Yoke.]

1. Belonging to marriage; matrimonial; connubial; as, conjugal relation; conjugal ties.
2. Suitable to the married state; becoming a husband in relation to his consort, or a consort in relation to her husband; as, conjugal affection.

CON'JU-GAL-LY, adv.

Matrimonially; connubially.

CON'JU-GATE, a.

In botany, a conjugate leaf is a pinnate leaf which has only one pair of leaflets; a conjugate raceme has two racemes only, united by a common peduncle. – Martyn. Conjugate diameter or axis, in geometry, a right line bisecting the transverse diameter; the shortest of the two diameters of an ellipsis. – Chambers. Encyc.

CON'JU-GATE, n.

A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification. We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed. – Bramhall.

CON'JU-GATE, v.t. [L. conjugo, conjugatus, to couple; con and jugo, to yoke, to marry. See Join and Yoke.]

1. To join; to unite in marriage. [Not now used.] – Wotton.
2. In grammar, to distribute the parts or inflections of a verb, into the several voices, modes, tenses, numbers and persons, so as to show their connections, distinctions, and modes of formation. Literally, to connect all the inflections of a verb, according to their derivation, or all the variations of one verb. In English, as the verb undergoes few variations, conjugation consists chiefly in combining the words which unitedly form the several tenses in the several persons.

CON'JU-GA-TED, pp.

Passed through its various forms, as a verb.

CON'JU-GA-TING, ppr.

Passing through its modes of formation.

CON-JU-GA'TION, n. [L. conjugatio.]

1. A couple or pair; as, a conjugation of nerves. [Little used.] – Brown.
2. The act of uniting or compiling; union; assemblage. – Bentley. Taylor.
3. In grammar, the distribution of the several inflections or variations of a verb, in their different voices, modes, tenses, numbers and persons; a connected scheme of all the derivative forms of a verb.

CON-JUNCT', a. [L. conjunctus, from conjungo. See Conjoin.]

Conjoined; united; concurrent. – Shak.

CON-JUNC'TION, n. [L. conjunctio. See Conjoin.]

1. Union; connection; association by treaty or otherwise. – Bacon. South.
2. In astronomy, the meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn.
3. In grammar, a connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to unite sentences or the clauses of a sentence and words, joining two or more simple sentences into one compound one, and continuing it at the pleasure of the writer or speaker. This book cost one dollar and ten cents. Virtue and vice are not compatible. God called the light day; and the darkness he called night. – Gen. i. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. – Prov. x.
4. The copulation of the sexes. – Smith's Tour.

CON-JUNC'TIVE, a.

1. Closely united. – Shak.
2. Uniting; serving to unite.
3. In grammar, the conjunctive mode is that which follows a conjunction, or expresses some condition, or contingency. It is more generally called subjunctive.

CON-JUNC'TIVE-LY, adv.

In conjunction or union; together. – Brown.

CON-JUNC'TIVE-NESS, n.

The quality of conjoining or uniting.