Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as conjugal: used by Swedenborg and his followers to distinguish their special conception of the nature of true marriage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Conjugal.

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  • adjective A form of "conjugal" used by Swedenborg and his followers, used to distinguish their ideas about marital relations.

Etymologies

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From Latin coniugiālis, from coniugium ("connection, marriage").

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Examples

  • I then asked, "Whence arises that which you call conjugial cold?"

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • The Latin word conjugial was used by the writer to indicate the true spiritual union of man and wife in contradistinction to the mere natural union as expressed in the word conjugal.

    The Wedding Guest 1847

  • The angels said, "Who does not know that the delights of conjugial love exceed those of all other loves? and who cannot see, that into some love are collected all the blessednesses, satisfactions, and delights, which can possibly be conferred by the Lord, and that the receptacle thereof is love truly conjugial, which is capable of receiving and perceiving them fully and sensibly?"

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • In its passage through these ultimates and those derivatives, it is changed by the man himself in various ways, and sometimes into the opposite, which is called the conjugial or connubial principle of what is evil and false.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • The subject here treated of is love truly conjugial, and not ordinary love, which also is called conjugial, and which with some is merely the limited love of the sex.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • Difference between love truly conjugial and vulgar love, which is also called conjugial, and which with some is merely the limited love of the sex, 98.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • TRULY CONJUGIAL, namely, that love truly conjugial, which is that of one man with one wife, from its origin and correspondence, is celestial, spiritual, holy, and clean above every other love, n.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • By the light into which men are elevated, we mean intelligence and wisdom; because spiritual light, which proceeds from the sun of the spiritual world, which sun in its essence is love, acts in equality or unity with those two principles; and by the heat into which women are elevated, we mean conjugial love because spiritual heat, which proceeds from the sun of that world, in its essence is love, and with women it is love conjoining itself with intelligence and wisdom in men; which love in its complex is called conjugial love, and by determination becomes that love.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • The conclusion resulting from these considerations is, that such as conjugial love is in the minds or spirits of two persons, such is it interiorly in those its organs.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • Delights of wisdom concerning conjugial love: after which follow the pleasures of insanity concerning scortatory love 1794

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Googalicious 2009

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