v. 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. Shaks., Haml., 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. Bellenden, 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., trans. 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.
¶ Used also for ENJOIN. [See A- pref. 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.
