ppl. a. [f. CONJUGATE v. + -ED.] = CONJUGATE a. in various senses.
1690. Norris, Beatitudes, 228. The Virgin may be said to be more pure than the conjugated Person.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Ficoides, Conjugated Leaves, that is Leaves set out in Pairs at the Joints.
1798. Anti-Jacobin, April, 23, Loves of Triangles, 117. Quick as her conjugated axes move.
1871. trans. Lommel’s Light, 45. These two points are so conjugated that the one is the image of the other.
b. Chem. = CONJUGATE A. 3.
1882. Watts, Dict. Chem., II. 7. Dumas and Piria … designated [such acids] as ‘conjugated acids.’ Ibid., II. 8. Thus, acetyl, C2H3O, may be regarded as a conjugated radicle composed of carbonyl, CO, and methyl, CH3, because acetic acid and its derivatives are capable of splitting up into compounds containing carbonyl, and others containing methyl.
