a. [a. F. conjoint (pa. pple. of conjoindre to CONJOIN) = It. congiunto:—L. conjunci-us CONJUNCT.]
† I. 1. Orig. used as pa. pple. of CONJOIN v.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 127. Libra they ben and Sagittaire With Scorpio, which is conjoint With hem to stonde upon that point.
1536. Primer Hen. VIII., 148. In my faith to Christ conjoint.
1663. Gerbier, Counsel, 99. None will deny but that Greatnesse and Conveniency being conjoint fits best.
1694. Child, Disc. Trade (ed. 4), 60. The abatement of interest conjoint with excises upon our home consumption.
II. as adj.
2. United, combined, conjoined.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., II. s.v. Rose-Tree, These two conjoint Causes.
1794. Sullivan, View Nat., II. 115. The conjoint operation of fire and water is tremendous.
1851. Nichol, Archit. Heav., 172. Conjoint stars are divided into orders.
1874. Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. (1879), 199. The conjoint use of both eyes.
b. Music. See CONJUNCT.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Conjoint, or Conjunct, is applied in the antient music, in the same sense as consonant, to two or more sounds at the same time. Conjoint degrees, two notes which immediately follow each other in the order of the scale.
3. Associated as a colleague.
1864. A. McKay, Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3), 131. A conjoint or colleague minister.
4. Belonging to, or constituted by, two or more in combination.
1871. Macduff, Mem. Patmos, xxi. 285. It is the conjoint throne of Father and Son.
1879. Q. Rev., April, 420. Their conjoint guilt was proved.
1880. Haughton, Phys. Geog., iv. 193. Their conjoint delta plain varies from 500 miles to 150 miles in width.
