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Definition of Conjunctive

1. Adjective. Serving or tending to connect.

2. Noun. An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences.

3. Adjective. Involving the joint activity of two or more. "Joint military activities"

Definition of Conjunctive

1. a. Serving to unite; connecting together.

Definition of Conjunctive

1. Adjective. (grammar) relating to a conjunction ¹

2. Adjective. (grammar) of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French ''je'' or Irish ''sé'' ¹

3. Adjective. (grammar of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact. ¹

4. Adjective. (logic) of or relating to logical conjunction ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conjunctive

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Conjunctive

1. Joining; connecting; connective. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conjunctive

conjunctiva conjunctivae conjunctival conjunctival arteries conjunctival cul-de-sac conjunctival fornix conjunctival glands conjunctival layer of bulb conjunctival layer of eyelids conjunctival reflex

conjunctival ring conjunctival sac conjunctival varix conjunctival veins conjunctivas conjunctive (current term) conjunctive adverb conjunctive adverbs conjunctive mood conjunctive moods

conjunctive normal form conjunctively conjunctiveness conjunctives conjunctiviplasty conjunctivitides conjunctivitis conjunctivitis arida conjunctivitis medicamentosa conjunctivitis petrificans

Literary usage of Conjunctive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"T/ie conjunctive or Social Case.—Dravidian grammarians have arranged the case system of their nouns in the Sanskrit order, ..."

2. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1842)
"The Predicate both of the conjunctive and Optative is represented as something supposed, therefore uncertain, possible ; and these words are divided, ..."

3. The elements of deductive logic by Thomas Fowler (1883)
"Thus, ' Either A is B, or C is D' is equivalent to the four conjunctive propositions ... I. conjunctive Syllogisms. A conjunctive Syllogism is a syllogism, ..."

4. A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools by Johan Nikolai Madvig (1856)
"In the conjunctive a thing is asserted simply as an idea conceived in the ... In some kinds of subordinate propositions the conjunctive is also used of a ..."

5. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1871)
"The electro-magnetic current moves at right angles to the course of the conjunctive -wire.—Let a current flow over a conductor in the direction of the arrow ..."

6. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"The conjunctive or Social Case.—Dravidian grammarians have arranged the case system of their nouns in the Sanskrit order, and in doing so have done violence ..."

7. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"conjunctive like was for some time thought to have originated in the 16th ... Shakespeare also used conjunctive like followed by a nominative pronoun: And ..."

8. Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style Into Writer's Workshop by Jeff Anderson (2005)
"Adverbs and conjunctive adverbs can add depth and coherence to texts. ... On the other hand, conjunctive adverbs serve as transitional words or phrases such ..."

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