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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conjunctive \Con*junc"tive\, a. [L. conjunctivus.]
     1. Serving to unite; connecting together.
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     2. Closely united. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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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