CONJUNCT


Meaning of CONJUNCT in English

— 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.) conjunctus joined, connected (ptp. of conjungere to join together), equiv. to con- CON- + junc- (var. s. of jungere to join) + -tus ptp. suffix ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .