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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"And" Quotes from Famous Books

... I can make a true black knot. Learned when I served my time and worked the mail order line for Kellett's. Experienced hand. Every knot says a lot. Let me. In courtesy. I knelt once before ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... of souls must be careful to animate all his exterior actions and labors in the service of his neighbor, with the interior spirit of compunction, humility, zeal, charity, and tender devotion. Without this he loses the fruit of all the pains he takes, and by them will often deserve only chastisements in the world ...

— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler

... Dr. Naudin pressed to his lips the hand that reached him the precious gift, and that upon this hand two tears fell from the eyes of the physician, long accustomed to look upon human misery and pain, and which had not for years been suffused ...

— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... back, Alan. This is my world, doomed perhaps, but I cannot forsake it now. I must give the enlarging drug to my father. And others who can ...

— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various

... his lessons between tea and dinner, but unlike the ordinary boy, he much preferred to wake early and work before breakfast. This was considered not good for his health, and there was a constant struggle between himself and his determined mother ...

— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

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