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noun

Conjugation n.

The act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. (Obs.) "Mixtures and conjugations of atoms."

Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple. (Obs.) "The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves."

(Gram.)

(a)

The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.

(b)

A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb.

(c)

A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner.

(Biol.) A kind of sexual union; applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

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"Conjugation" Quotes from Famous Books

... that you are ruminating on the act of fertilisation: it has long seemed to me the most wonderful and curious of physiological problems. I have often and often speculated for amusement on the subject, but quite fruitlessly. Do you not think that the conjugation of the Diatomaceae will ultimately throw light on the subject? But the other day I came to the conclusion that some day we shall have cases of young being produced from spermatozoa or pollen without ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... to be serious, and, having grasped the armful of wood, he began to repeat as he ran, "The conjugation of the verb—consists in its variations according to number—according to ...

— Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal • Edmondo De Amicis

... differ very widely with regard to the conjugation of this verb; there is no doubt, however, that from every point of view the preferable forms for the preterite and past participle are respectively ate and eaten. To refined ears the other forms smack of vulgarity, although ...

— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)

... the specified day in the specified church, which was, moreover, a Jesuit church, namely, St. Sulpice; and I then went through a religious act. But this act was no odious abjuration, but a very innocent conjugation; that is to say, my marriage, already performed, according to the civil law there received the ecclesiastical consecration, because my wife, whose family are staunch Catholics, would not have thought her marriage sacred enough without such a ceremony. And I would on no account cause this ...

— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot

... everywhere the instinctive object of the male, who is very rarely passive in the process of courtship, to assure by his activity in display, his energy or skill or beauty, both his own passion and the passion of the female. Throughout nature sexual conjugation only takes place after much expenditure of energy.[34] We are deceived by what we see among highly fed domesticated animals, and among the lazy classes of human society, whose sexual instincts are at once both unnaturally stimulated ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

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