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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conjunctive \Con*junc"tive\, adjective [L. conjunctivus.]
1. Serving to unite; connecting together.
2. Closely united. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Conjunctive mood} (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood.
{Conjunctive tissue} (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also {cellular tissue} and {connective tissue}. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
conjunctive
adjective
1: serving or tending to connect [ant: {disjunctive}]
2: involving the joint activity of two or more; "the attack was met by the combined strength of two divisions"; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong dring"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities" [syn: {combined}, {concerted}, {conjunct}, {cooperative}, {united}]
noun: an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: {conjunction}, {connective}]
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