conjunct

conjunct
conjunctly, adv.
adj. /keuhn jungkt", kon"jungkt/; n. /kon"jungkt/, adj.
1. bound in close association; conjoined; combined; united: conjunct ideas; conjunct influences.
2. formed by conjunction.
3. Gram.
a. occurring only in combination with an immediately preceding or following form of a particular class, and constituting with this form a single phonetic unit, as 'll in English he'll, and n't in isn't.
b. (of a pronoun) having enclitic or proclitic form and occurring with a verb, as French me, le, se.
c. pertaining to a word so characterized.
4. Music. progressing melodically by intervals of a second: conjunct motion of an ascending scale.
n.
5. Logic. either of the propositions in a conjunction.
6. Gram. a conjunctive adverb.
[1425-75; late ME (ptp.) < L conjunctus joined, connected (ptp. of conjungere to join together), equiv. to con- CON- + junc- (var. s. of jungere to join) + -tus ptp. suffix]

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