conjugation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONJUGATION, noun [Latin] 1. A couple or pair; as a conjugation of nerves. [Little used.] 2. The act of uniting or compiling; union; assemblage. 3. In grammar, the distribution of the several inflections or variations of a verb, in their different voices, modes, tenses, numbers and persons; a connected scheme of all the derivative forms of a verb.
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