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Conjugation

noun

The state of being joined together. Synonyms: colligation, conjunction, junction.

The inflection of verbs.

The complete set of inflected forms of a verb.

A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms.

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes. Synonyms: coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union. "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

The act of making or becoming a single unit. Synonyms: jointure, unification, union, uniting. "He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"

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"Conjugation" Quotes from Famous Books

... cannot add, cannot bring on its tablets; yet the sum, we say, is written visible: All that has been done, All that is doing, All that will be done! Understand it well, the Thing thou beholdest, that Thing is an Action, the product and expression of exerted Force: the All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do. Shoreless Fountain-Ocean of Force, of power to do; wherein Force rolls and circles, billowing, many-streamed, harmonious; wide as Immensity, deep as Eternity; beautiful and terrible, not to be comprehended: ...

— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

... and the preterite: I love, I loved. All other tenses are formed by the use of the auxiliary verbs. By combining the present and past tenses of will, shall, have, be, or do with those parts of the verb known as infinitives and participles, the various tenses of the complete conjugation of the verb are built up. The formation of the preterite tense, and the consequent division of verbs into strong and ...

— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks

... "but read on, in that same verse:—'and hath determined the bounds of their habitation.' There is a law of races; races must have antipathies, unless they intermarry; he who seeks to confound them may as well labor for the conjugation of all the tribes of animals. He and his results would prove to ...

— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams

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