a. [ad. rare L. conjugiāl-is belonging to marriage, connubial, f. conjugi-um connection, wedlock, marriage, f. conjug-em, nom. conju(n)x, consort, spouse: see CONJUGAL.] Used by Swedenborg and his followers instead of CONJUGAL, to distinguish their special notion of the marriage relation.
1790. (title) Swedenborg’s Delights of Wisdom, concerning Conjugial Love. Ibid. (1811), 378. Love truly conjugial, considered in itself, is an union of souls, a conjunction of minds. Ibid., 441. This conjugial principle [of good and truth] … is changed … sometimes into the opposite principle which is called the conjugal or connubial principle of what is evil and false.
1828. Liturgy of New Church, Order of Nuptials, Pref. 29. The word Conjugial is used in the Order of Nuptials, instead of Conjugal, as having become familiar to the receivers of the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem.
1867. Kingsley, in Lett. & Mem., II. 259. Conjugial for conjugal … is a pedantry on Swedenborg’s part.
