ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Joined together, united, combined; allied. Conjoined manipulation (Med.): bi-manual examination.
1570. T. Norton, Nowel’s Catech. (1853), 187. With conjoined hearts and prayers we do … call upon our common Father.
1617. Wither, Fidelia, Juvenilia (1633), 470. To disunite hearts so conjoyn’d as our.
1656. Bramhall, Replic., iv. 189. Nor have we separated our selves, from the conjoyned communion of the Christian World in any thing.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 6/1. The conjoined tendons.
1872. Huxley, Phys., vii. 167. The conjoined levers … present no smooth surfaces.
1875. trans. Ziemssen’s Cycl. Med., X. 10. The peculiarity of conjoined manipulation is, that the organs to be examined, are pressed between both hands.
b. Occurring together in space or time.
1586. J. Hooker, Girald. Irel., II. 149/1. By meanes of which their conioined aduancement, there entred a verie feruent affection … betweene them.
1794. G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., II. xvii. 248. That because two things are always conjoined, one must be the cause of the other.
c. Her. Said of two or more charges of the same kind connected together.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xx. (1611), 159. The Field is Ruby, two Wings, Inuerted and conioined Topaz.
1823. Rutter, Fonthill, p. xxii. Gules, Seven Mascles conjoined, three, three, and one, Or.
1882. Cussans, Her., 128. When hollow Charges, such as Annulets, are linked together, so as to form a chain, they are sometimes blazoned as Conjoined; they would be better described as Braced.
d. Of heavenly bodies: In conjunction.
1815. Scott, Guy M., iii. Signs and planets, in aspects sextile, quartile, trine, conjoined or opposite.
