a. [f. prec. + -AL: cf. mod.F. conjonctionel.] Pertaining or relating to conjunction or to a conjunction.
1. Astrol. and Astron. (see CONJUNCTION 3).
1665. J. Gadbury, Londons Deliv., i. 4. Assistance from the Conjunctional, Opposite, or Quadrantal Rays of Jupiter.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, I. xii. 49. The moon in her conjunctional Aspects.
2. Gram. (See CONJUNCTION 6.)
1871. Earle, Philol., iv. 188. It becomes qualified to enter into conjunctional phrases, though it does not constitute a conjunction all by itself.
3. (See quot.)
1888. Linn. Soc. Jrnl., XX. 235. Conjunctional Segregation is Segregation arising from the instincts by which organisms seek each other.
Hence Conjunctionally adv., in a conjunctional manner; as a conjunction.
1845. Stoddart, in Encycl. Metrop. (1847), I. 166/1. This adverb came next to be employed prepositionally and conjunctionally, with the same reference to time past.