adjoining, ppl. a.
(əˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ)
[f. adjoin + -ing2.]
1. a. Lying next, contiguous, adjacent; neighbouring.
| 1494 Fabyan vi. cc. 208 Other countrees adioynynge dyd the same. 1794 Sullivan View of Nat. I. 291 The seas, forests, and adjoining mountains. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 506 To step aside into some adjoining room. |
b. with const. of the vb. See adjoin 5, 6.
| 1523 Fitzherbert Husb. (1534) E 4 Adioynynge to the ende of the same, make an other lyttell folde. a 1593 Marlowe Dido i. i. 374 The land..Adjoining on Agenor's stately town. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. x. 5 Our Foote Vpon the hilles adioining to the Citty, Shall stay with vs. 1667 E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. i. iii. (1743) 6 Eton, a village adjoining to Windsor. 1745 in Col. Rec. Penn. V. 29 Who had Lands adjoining the Road. 1864 D. Mitchell Wet Days 62 Adjoining this is a tower. |
2. fig. Pertaining, belonging; connected.
| 1494 Fabyan i. iv. 11 With also the Commodities therunto adioynynge. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 28 The words and sentences either adjoyning, or intermingled with those speeches. 1869 Buckle Civilis. III. v. 417 Considerations, which are to be taken partly from the adjoining sciences. |