adjoin, v.
(əˈdʒɔɪn)
Forms: 4 aioyne, ajoine; 5–6 adione, adjone; 5–7 adioyne, adjoyne; 7– adjoin.
[a. OFr. ajoin-, ajoign-, stem of ajoindre, mod. adjoindre:—L. adjung-ĕre to join to; f. ad to + jung-ĕre to join.]
† 1. trans. lit. To join on; to join or unite (a person or thing to or unto another). Obs.
| c 1325 [See adjoint, pa. pple.] c 1350 Will. Palerne 1753 The posterne of that perles erber Þat was to meliors chaumber choisli a-ioyned. c 1400 Destr. Troy iv. 1135 Iason full iustly aioynet to my-seluon,..Draw furthe in the derke. 1530 Palsgr. 417/2 If they be ones asondre, we shall have moche ado to adjoyne them. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Paraphr. Matt. i. 20 Adjoyne her unto the. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. iii. 20 A massie wheele..To whose huge spoakes, ten thousand lesser things Are mortiz'd and adioyn'd. 1659 Hammond On Ps. cxviii. 27, 594 To them were adjoyned branches of trees. |
2. fig. To join on as an adjunct or supplement; to add, annex, attach, or append; to subjoin. Const. to, unto. arch.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy i. 292 A god..Þat ajoinet was Iobeter to his iuste nome. a 1509 in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 23 I. 55 Police and wisdom is to be adjoyned to the Popes Holynesse in this behalve. 1594 J. King Jonah (1864) 187 The epithet is very fitly adjoined to vanity. 1616 Hayward Sanct. Troubled Soule ii. §11 (1620) 292 Thou wouldest adioyne our sins vnto thee. 1649 Selden Laws of Eng. I. xiv. (1739) 26 And so unto the Lay-power was the Ecclesiastical adjoined in this Work. 1724 Watts Logic i. iv. §7 (1822) 75 I might adjoin another sort of equivocal words. 1865 Daily Tel. 6 Nov. 5/2 A secretary, with a handsome salary, is adjoined to the commissioners. |
† 3. refl. To adjoin oneself to: To join. Obs.
| 1533 Bellendene Livy ii. (1822) 204 Cam ane huge multitude of Volschis and Equis, and adjonit thaim to the tentis of Sabinis. 1640 Fuller Abel Rediv., Bucer (1867) I. 179 He adjoined himself to the order of the Dominicans. 1656 Jeanes Fvlnesse of Christ 45 Such Proselytes as adjoyned themselves thereunto. |
† 4. intr. (by suppression of refl. pron.) To join; to come into union or contact. Const. to. Obs.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy ii. 350 To this souerayne Citie þat yet was olofte Iason aioynid. Ibid. xxxii. 12782 This Egea ajoinet to hir iust spouse. 1484 Caxton Curial 4 Hys tormentis adione to our lyf in such wyse that, etc. 1589 Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 73 Maugre al the shepheards adjoining, he mounted her behind him. 1671 J. Webster Metallogr. iv. 61 His censure upon it, and his own opinion adjoyned. |
† 5. intr. To be or lie close, or in contact; to be contiguous. Const. to, on, with. Obs.
| 1479 R. Rokewood in Bury Wills (1850) 53 A mees called Pachette, and an other mees called Coles, adioynand togedyr in Euston. 1578 T. N., tr. Conq. W. India Pref. 3 Part of India, which adjoyneth with Brazil. 1652 C. Stapylton Herodian 61 The Roman Empire to defend and hold Against the Barb'rous people that adjoyne. 1725 Pope Odyssey vi. 317 Close to the bay great Neptune's fane adjoins. 1794 S. Williams Hist. Vermont 242 The towns in Vermont which adjoined to Connecticut river. |
6. trans. (by omission of to) To be contiguous to or in contact with.
| 1745 [See under adjoining 1 b.] 1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. iv. 430 The Mahrattas would in that case immediately adjoin Carnatic. 1870 Wilson Churches of Lindisf. 76 The head of the tomb adjoins the west wall. |
7. Math. (See quot. 1903 and cf. adjunction 3 a.)
| 1903 L. E. Dickson Theory Algebraic Equations vi. 62 In the language of Galois..we derive the domain R1 = (1, i) from the included domain R = (1) by adjoining the quantity i to the domain R. 1904 [see adjunction 3 a]. |
¶ Used also for enjoin. [See a- prefix 10.]
| c 1400 Destr. Troy vi. 2197 I Aioyne thee this iorney with ioy for to take. 1590 A. Munday in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 180, I am adioyned such a penaunce. |