# conjoined
## English
### Etymology

From conjoin +‎ -ed.

### Adjective

conjoined (not comparable)
* Of persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically.
** 1580s, Ovid, Elegia VI, Book I, translated by Christopher Marlowe, in Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations, Stephen Orgel (ed.), Penguin, 1971, p. 110,
    And farewell cruel posts, rough threshold's block, / And doors conjoined with an hard iron lock!
** 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XI.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 256:Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth.
** 1982, Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, New York: Pocket Books, page 184:Blood vessels are fused to increase circulation and these conjoined or grafted veins and arteries make great painful lumps which have to be soaked daily.
** 2009, Alex Metcalfe, chapter 10, in The Muslims of Medieval Italy, Edinburgh University Press, page 196:These 'signatures' (in Arabic ‘alāmāt; singular, ‘alāma) typically consisted of a phrase of up to half a dozen conjoined words written as a monogram in which the reed pen usually maintained contact with the parchment throughout.
* Joined or bound together; united (in a relationship).
** 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signatures F3, recto – F3, verso:If either of you know any inward impediment why you ſhould not be conioyned, I charge you on your ſoules to vtter it.
** 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Part II, p. 83:O my lord / The glory of whose new state is hidden from us, / Pray for us of your charity; now in the sight of God / Conjoined with all the saints and martyrs gone before you, / Remember us.
** 1957 June 3, “E Pluribus Nigeria”, in Time:But as representatives of a loosely conjoined nation split in a hundred ways by personal, tribal, religious and economic rivalries and jealousies, no two of them went to the conference agreed on what independence should mean.
* Combined.
** 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Quaker’s Meeting”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 110:Their garb and stillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and herd-like—as in the pasture—"forty feeding like one."
** 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas‎, Washington, D.C., page 45:I have seen another woman who, from taste and necessity conjoined, has gone into practical affairs, carries on a mechanical business, partly works at it herself, […]

#### Usage notes

* Conjoint is often used, but conjoined is the preferred usage.

#### Derived terms

* conjoinedly
* conjoined twin
* nonconjoined
* unconjoined

#### Translations
### Verb

conjoined
* simple past and past participle of conjoin

### References

* ↑ “conjoined, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.