[f. CONJUGATE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CONJUGATE.
1530. Palsgr., Introd., 34. These mean verbes in theyr conjugatyng differ from verbes actyves.
1612. Brinsley, Lud. Lit., 60. But in the Verbes aboue all … making them [scholars] perfect … in coniugating.
1844. Emerson, Lect., New Eng. Ref., Wks. (Bohn), I. 262. Is that Greek and Latin some spell to conjure with?… I will omit this conjugating, and go straight to affairs.
b. Comb. conjugating-tube, a short projecting tube by which conjugation is effected in some of the Algæ called Conjugatæ.
