conjoined

Adjective

Joined together, as with conjoined twins, or in matrimony.
1600 If either of you know any inward impediment, why you should not be conjoined, I charge you, on your souls, to utter it. — Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1.
...representatives of a loosely conjoined nation... - Time

Usage notes

Conjoint is often used, but conjoined is the preferred usage.

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of conjoin

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This type is occasionally found conjoined with the preceding; and various details common to both classes show that there was no great difference in time between them.
The most comprehensive view of Rosmini's philosophical standpoint is to be found in his Sistema filosofico, in which he set forth the conception of a complete encyclopaedia of the human knowable, synthetically conjoined, according to the order of ideas, in a perfectly harmonious whole.
Socrates and Callias, is their one form or essence only as conjoined with different matters, e.g.
The opposition so formed took the name of the " Conjoined Estates."
The headquarters of the conspirators was the bishop's palace near Vor Frue church, between which and the court messages were passing continually, and where the document to be adopted by the Conjoined Estates took its final shape.

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