Definition of "conjoined"

And farewell cruel posts, rough threshold's block, / And doors conjoined with an hard iron lock!

1580s, Ovid, Elegia VI, Book I, translated by Christopher Marlowe, in Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations, Stephen Orgel (ed.), Penguin, 1971, p. 110

Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth.

1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter .”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951

Blood vessels are fused to increase circulation and these conjoined or grafted veins and arteries make great painful lumps which have to be soaked daily.

1982, Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, New York: Pocket Books, page 184

These 'signatures' (in Arabic ‘alāmāt; singular, ‘alāma) typically consisted of a phrase of up to half a dozen conjoined words written as a monogram in which the reed pen usually maintained contact with the parchment throughout.

2009, Alex Metcalfe, chapter 10, in The Muslims of Medieval Italy, Edinburgh University Press, page 196

If either of you know any inward impediment, why you should not be conjoined, I charge you, on your souls, to utter it.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]

O my lord / The glory of whose new state is hidden from us, / Pray for us of your charity; now in the sight of God / Conjoined with all the saints and martyrs gone before you, / Remember us.

1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Part II, p. 83

But as representatives of a loosely conjoined nation split in a hundred ways by personal, tribal, religious and economic rivalries and jealousies, no two of them went to the conference agreed on what independence should mean.

1957 June 3, “E Pluribus Nigeria”, in Time

Their garb and stillness conjoined, present a uniformity, tranquil and herd-like—as in the pasture—"forty feeding like one."

1823, Charles Lamb, "A Quakers' Meeting" in Essays of Elia, New York: The Century Co., 1902, p. 112

I have seen another woman who, from taste and necessity conjoined, has gone into practical affairs, carries on a mechanical business, partly works at it herself, […]

1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas‎, Washington, D.C., page 45