Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Conjunctive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Conjunctive \Con*junc"tive\, a. [L. conjunctivus.]
1. Serving to unite; connecting together.
2. Closely united. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Conjunctive mood} (Gram.), the mood which follows a
conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive
mood.
{Conjunctive tissue} (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all
parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and
consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded
protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also
{cellular tissue} and {connective tissue}. Adipose or
fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and
bone are sometimes included by the phrase.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
conjunctive
adj 1: serving or tending to connect [ant: {disjunctive}]
2: involving the joint activity of two or more; "the attack was
met by the combined strength of two divisions"; "concerted
action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong
dring"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition";
"a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military
activities" [syn: {combined}, {concerted}, {conjunct}, {cooperative},
{united}]
n : an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or
phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: {conjunction}, {connective}]
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