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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
conjunctive \conjunc"tive\, a. l. conjunctivus.
   1. serving to unite; connecting together.
      1913 webster

   2. closely united. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
conjunctive mood conjunctive tissue cellular tissue connective tissue 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
disjunctive combined concerted conjunct cooperative united 
conjunction connective 
[3] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
conjunctive, contracts, wills, instruments. a term in grammar used to 
designate particles which connect one word to another, or one proposition to 
another proposition. 
     2. there are many cases in law, where the conjunctive and is used for 
the disjunctive or, and vice versa. 
     3. an obligation is conjunctive when it contains several things united 
by a conjunction to indicate that they are all equally the object of the 
matter or contract for example, if i promise for a lawful consideration, to 
deliver to you my copy of the life of washington, my encyclopaedia, and my 
copy of the history of the united states, i am then bound to deliver all of 
them and cannot be discharged by delivering one only. there are, according 
to toullier, tom. vi. n. 686, as many separate obligations is there are 
things to be delivered, and the obligor may discharge himself pro tanto by 
delivering either of them, or in case of refusal the tender will be valid. 
it is presumed, however, that only one action could be maintained for the 
whole. but if the articles in the agreement had not been enumerated; i could 
not, according to toullier, deliver one in discharge of my contract, without 
the consent of the creditor; as if, instead of enumerating the, books above 
mentioned, i had bound myself to deliver all my books, the very books in 
question. vide disjunctive, item, and the case, there cited; and also, bac. 
ab. conditions, p; 1 bos.  pull. 242; 4 bing. n. c. 463 s. c. 33 e. c. l. 
r. 413; 1 bouv. inst. n. 687-8. 




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