conjunctive

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONJUNCTIVE, adjective 1. Closely united. 2. Uniting; serving to unite. 3. In grammar, the conjunctive mode is that which follows a conjunction, or expresses some condition, or contingency. It is more generally called subjunctive.
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