conjunctive

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Watching the pair with an amused smile, Beaumaroy contented himself with putting in, here and there, what may be called a conjunctive observation--just enough to give the topic a new start After a quarter of an hour of this pleasant conversation, for such all three seemed to find it, Mr. Saffron finished his wine, handed the glass to Beaumaroy, and took a cordial leave of Alec Naylor.

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  1. adjective Joining; connective.
  2. adjective Joined together; combined: the conjunctive focus of political opposition.
  3. adjective Grammar Of, relating to, or being a conjunction.

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  • One can argue over the degree of hyperbole in the latter (conjunctive) assertion, but the statement stands as a valid fundamental appraisal of the way Americans lived then, and the way we continue to live today. —  WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
  • It puts forward a conjunctive, two-prong test that must be satisfied for a method to "transform [] a particular article into a different state or thing" and thus to qualify as patent-eligible subject matter. —  Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
  • Hey, Luke, where do you get "conjunctive or" from? —  Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
  • Thus, step by step, throughout the learning process, the teacher makes certain that he has awakened in the mind of the learner the exact old knowledge which will unify into a clearly understood and adequately controlled new experience, as signified by the term conjunctive pronoun Question and Answer.=--On account of the large use of questioning as a means of directing and testing the pupils' selecting of old knowledge, or interpreting ideas, the developing method is often identified with the question and answer method. —  Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education
  • This is, in my opinion, a vitious expression, probably corrupted from a phrase more pure, but now somewhat obsolete: The book is a printing, The brass is a forging; a being properly at, and printing and forging verbal nouns signifying action, according to the analogy of this language The indicative and conjunctive moods are by modern writers frequently confounded, or rather the conjunctive is wholly neglected, when some convenience of versification docs not invite its revival. —  A Grammar of the English Tongue
 

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  1. = F. conjonctif = Spanish conjuntivo = Portuguese conjunctivo = Italian congiuntivo, from Late Latin conjunctivus, serving to connect, from Latin conjunctus, past participle of conjungere, connect: see conjoin, v., conjunct, conjunction.
 

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