subjoin, v.
(səbˈdʒɔɪn)
Also 6 subion(n)e, 7 subjoyn(e.
[In early use Sc.: ad. obs. F. subjoindre (15th–16th c.), ad. L. subjungĕre: see sub- 28 and join v.]
1. trans. To add at the end of a spoken or written statement, argument, or discourse; sometimes, to add (a note) at the bottom of a page. a. with words denoting the form or contents of the addition as obj.
| 1573 Tyrie Refut. in Cath. Tract. 10/28, I will pass to the mater, first proponand my lettre, thairefter his ansuer..last of all I sall subione the refutatioun. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. h iiij, I haiff subionned thais twa tables following. 1656 Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 3 Having removed one feare..he subjoynes a command of an opposite fear. 1669 Gale Crt. Gentiles i. v. 27 To these we subjoyned the ancient Navigations of the Phenicians. 1683 Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing i, In the same Book there are these written Notes subjoyned. 1727 Col. Rec. Pennsylv. III. 283 The several Persons whose names are subjoyned. 1785 Cowper Let. 5 Jan., According to your request I subjoin my Epitaph on Dr. Johnson. 1801 Med. Jrnl. V. 290 We shall subjoin, verbatim, an outline of the plan of such an institution. 1815 Scribbleomania 248, I will..subjoin the opinion of a very clever departed writer. 1835 Thirlwall Greece vi. I. 187 He subjoins, as a reason, the comparatively late age of Homer and Hesiod. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. p. lix, We subjoin from a catalogue a list of prices. 1879 Lubbock Addr. Pol. & Educ. iii. 59, I subjoin the answers. |
b. with quoted words or reported statement as obj.; † occas. almost = rejoin v.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 217 Bodin explaining that of Seneca, Septimus quisque annus ætati signum imprimit, subjoynes, hoc de maribus dictum oportuit [etc.]. 1665 Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 725 Subjoyning at last, that they were and would be safe against the punishments of that cruel Edict. 1670 G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. i. 20, I subjoyn'd, I do not wonder. 1784 tr. Beckford's Vathek 154 ‘We have here then,’ subjoined Carathis, ‘a girl both of courage and science.’ 1853 C. Brontë Villette xviii, ‘She does several things very well.’ (Flirtation amongst the number subjoined I, in thought.) 1862 Goulburn Pers. Relig. ii. i. 205 ‘Work out your own salvation’, writes the Apostle, ‘with fear and trembling’;..but then he immediately subjoins, ‘for it is God that worketh in you.’ |
2. To place in immediate sequence or juxtaposition; to add as a concomitant or related element.
| 1668 Wilkins Real Char. 371 They [vowels] may be both preposed and subjoyned to themselves and to one another. 1701 Norris Ideal World i. ii. 123, I have subjoined a minor to his major. 1716 [see sub-adore s.v. sub- 8]. 1751 Harris Hermes ii. iv. 283 The Accusative is that Case, which to an efficient Nominative and a Verb of Action subjoins either the Effect or the Passive Subject. 1803 R. Hall Sentiments Pres. Crisis 9 The New Testament subjoins to the duty of fearing God, that of honouring the king. 1835 T. Mitchell Acharn. Aristoph. 669 note, A single Bacchius appears to be subjoined to six anapæsts. 1856 M. C. Clarke tr. Berlioz' Instrumentation 3 When Monteverde attempted to subjoin the chord of the seventh on the dominant without preparation. |
† 3. In occas. transf. uses: To attach in a subordinate position; to lie underneath and next to; to add as part of a treatment. Obs.
| 1632 Lithgow Trav. viii. 369 [Fez] may rather second Grand Caire, than subioyne it selfe to Constantinople. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purch. 26 The..last Fillet, which subjoyns the under side of the upper Thorus. 1706 E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 101 There's no bringing him to his true Temperament again, but by subjoining the Bilboes. |
† 4. To add to, strengthen, reinforce; to subscribe to, second (an opinion). Obs. ? vulgar.
| 1810 Splendid Follies I. 158 ‘Upon my word, sir’ replied Seraphina, heartily subjoining his laugh. Ibid. III. 65 I'm sorry to subjoin your opinion,..by observing that gallantry is too often the only characteristic of a soldier. Ibid. 195 Report whispers that she means to subjoin her income with the widow's pittance. |
Hence subˈjoined ppl. a.
| 1812 G. Chalmers Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit. 442 Let well intentioned men mark the subjoined detail of the real value of the imports, and exports of Ireland. 1857 Miller Elem. Chem., Org. i. 18 The subjoined precautions are requisite. 1870 L'Estrange Life of Miss Mitford I. v. 125 A mother's resentment at anything which could endanger her daughter's success is exhibited in the subjoined letter. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 224/1 The subjoined table gives the results of temperature observations at widely separated localities. |