Conjoin

v. Forms: 4–5 conjoigne(n, 4–7 -joyne, (6 Sc. -jone, -jonne, -june), 6–7 -joine, 7–8 -joyn, 6– conjoin; also pa. pple. 4–7 conjoint. [ME. conjoign-en, -joyn-e, a. F. conjoign-, stem of conjoindre (pr. pple. conjoign-ant, pres. conj. conjoigne) = It. congiungere, -giugnere:—L. conjung-ĕre to join together, f. con- + jungĕre to JOIN. Cf. CONJOINT, CONJUNCT.]

  I.  trans.

  1.  To join together; to connect, unite.

  a.  in physical connection.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., III. xii. 102. Þe same diuersite … moste departen and unioignen þe þinges þat ben conioigned.

1432–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 299. Speyne … whom the hilles Pirene conioynethe of the northe parte to Fraunce Narbonense.

1571.  Digges, Pantom., IV. xxv. G g ij b. Streight lines conioyning all the trigonall bases centers.

a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 460. York is an ancient city, built on both sides of the river Ouse, conjoined with a bridge.

1725.  Pope, Odyss., II. 173. Swift they descend, with wing to wing conjoin’d.

1869.  Eng. Mechanic, 3 Dec., 271/2. It conjoins or connects the ball and other parts.

  b.  in non-physical connection.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., III. iv. 73. Uertue transporteþ dignite anon to þilke man to whiche she hir self is conioigned.

1548.  Hall, Chron., 241. To conjoyne the whole countrey of Flanders … to the croune of Fraunce.

1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., i. (1634), 1. The knowledge of God and of ourselves, are things conjoyned.

1645.  Fuller, Good Th. in Bad T. (1841), 56. The same particle may conjoin the words and yet disjoin the sense.

1751.  Johnson, Rambler, No. 143, ¶ 10. Where the same ideas are conjoined without any … necessary coherence.

1864.  Bowen, Logic, i. 10. In Reasoning, it compares, disjoins or conjoins Judgments.

  † c.  in marriage. Obs.

1447.  Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 48. Conjoyned be maryage.

1514.  Barclay, Cyt. & Uplondyshm., 10. Our Lorde conjoyned them both as man and wyfe.

1599.  Shaks., Much Ado, IV. i. 13. Any inward impediment why you should not be conioyned.

1649.  Bp. Hall, Cases Consc., IV. viii. (1654), 362. This act of conjoyning the married persons in wedlock.

  2.  To join in action, relation, purpose, feeling, etc.; to combine, unite, ally.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Moder of God, 131. God … of his noblesse Conjoyned hath you … As modir and sone.

1513.  Douglas, Æneis, XI. iii. 67. We sall do fully all that evyr we may, The to conione with King Latyn in hy.

1588.  Babington, Exp. Lord’s Prayer, vi. (1596), 270. Whome a like punishment conioyned, a farre vnlike cause disioyned.

1795.  Southey, Joan of Arc, VIII. 616. Those valiant troops … with us Conjoin’d might press upon the vanquish’d foe.

1835.  Lytton, Rienzi, I. I. iv. 57. [As] one among the Roman deputies to Avignon, he had been conjoined with Petrarch to supplicate Clement VI. to remove the Holy See froom Avignon to Rome.

  † 3.  To combine, unite into one substance. Obs.

1552.  Lyndesay, Monarche, IV. 5593. All Reasonabyll Creature Sall suddantlye start vp attonis, Coniunit with Saull, Flesche, Blude, & Bonis.

1588.  A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., H ij. I thocht it necessar to conionne y^e awld kallendar with y^e reformeit.

1605.  Verstegan, Dec. Intell., iv. (1628), 98. Sometime it was conioyned together in one same substance.

1671.  J. Webster, Metallogr., iv. 75. Both being conjoyned, doth draw forth a certain unctuous spirit.

  II.  intr.

  4.  To become joined together; to unite.

1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, VIII. 109. A hurt … vnto the Nerue before it enter into the Muscle … can not by any meanes conioyne, or knitte together agayne.

1611.  Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., x. (1614), 19/1. Many fresh springs … meet and conjoine in the vallies.

a. 1711.  Ken, Edmund, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 259. As Male and Female Palms, whose Roots conjoin.

1843.  Carlyle, Past & Pr. (1858), 167. [They] do conjoin there, or nowhere else!

1885.  Manch. Exam., 14 Oct., 3/1. He may trace the course of these many causes until they conjoin in the great revolt of to-day.

  † b.  Of heavenly bodies: cf. CONJUNCTION 3. Obs.

1643.  Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., I. § 14. To conjoyne and obscure each other.

1647.  Cowley, Mistress, Impossibilities, As Stars … when they conjoin, Change … the World’s Estate.

  † c.  To unite sexually. Obs.

1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., V. v. 36.

1610.  Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 524. They were put forth of Paradise, and then they did first conjoyne, and beget them.

  † 5.  To combine in action; to cooperate. Obs.

1532–3.  Act 24 Hen. VIII., c. 12 (§ 1). Bothe theyr auctoritees and iurisdictions do conioyn together in the due administracion of Justice.

1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., IV. v. 63. This part of his conioynes With my disease, and helpes to end me.

a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 408. He conjoined with the earl of Northumberland … and others against king Henry the Fourth.

  ¶  Erroneously for ENJOIN.

1568.  Tancred & Gism., III. ii., in Hazl., Dodsley, VII. 53. She … then conjoin’d me to conceal the same.

1608–11.  Bp. Hall, Epist., III. ii. Wks. (1627), 318. Her crowne; which if she were conioyned to fetch thorow the flames of hell, her faith would not sticke at the condition.