conjoin

From Old French conjoindre, from Latin coniungo, from com- together + iungo join

• IPA^(key): /kənˈdʒɔɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪn

conjoin (third-person singular simple present conjoins, present participle conjoining, simple past and past participle conjoined)

1. (transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.

   They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.

2. (transitive) To marry.

   I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.

3. (transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
4. (transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
5. (intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVI, St. Edmund

     And the Body of one Dead; — a temple where the Hero-soul once was and now is not: Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder; Supernaturalism brought home to the very dullest; Eternity laid open, and the nether Darkness and the upper Light-Kingdoms; — do conjoin there, or exist nowhere!

• (to join together): affix, attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
• (to marry): bewed, wed; see also Thesaurus:marry

• conjunction
• conjunctiva
• conjunctive

• Conjoin @ The Internet Grammar of English