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conjunction

And conj.

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence. Note: (a) It is sometimes used emphatically; as, "there are women and women," that is, two very different sorts of women. (b) By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of which is modificatory of the other, are connected by and; as, "the tediousness and process of my travel," that is, the tedious process, etc.; "thy fair and outward character," that is, thy outwardly fair character,

In order to; used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. "At least to try and teach the erring soul."

It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. "When that I was and a little tiny boy."

If; though. See An, conj. (Obs.) "As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs."

And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

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... have just caught sight of them, and are hoisting sail. They are either going to meet them or to run away. Our vessels are the most numerous; but no, there is not much difference. Pisani has fourteen ships, but some must be lagging behind, or have been lost. How many ...

— The Lion of Saint Mark - A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century • G. A. Henty

... to her the compliment of various visits from members of the Royal family, the kindly personal treatment of its leaders and a frequently expressed desire for its unity in one great and growing nationality—British in allegiance and connection and power; Australian in local authority, patriotism and development. India was indebted ...

— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins

... Castor is unknown, it is impossible to compute the combined mass of its components. They are very remote, their light period being estimated at forty-four years. Castor is doubtless a more massive orb than our Sun, and possesses a ...

— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard

... damned," muttered Macandrew. "Look here, Jessie," he cried, "here's all us young men been waiting for nearly twenty minutes, and you take no notice of us, but as soon as a captain looks across the counter, there you are. But how did you know he was a captain? That's what I'd like to know. He's only wearing ...

— London River • H. M. Tomlinson

... in a large part of that in which we live, the practice of infanticide was, or is, a regular and legal custom; famine, pestilence, and war were and are normal factors in the struggle for existence, and they have served, in a gross and brutal fashion, to mitigate the intensity of the effects of its ...

— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

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