ppl. a. and sb. Obs.; also adioynaunt, adioynant. [a. OFr. ajoinant, MFr. adjoinant (mod. Fr. adjoignant), pr. pple. of adjoindre. See ADJOIN.]
A. ppl. adj. Adjoining; lying next; contiguous.
1494. Fabyan, V. cxviii. 94. Assautis vpon ye Saxons nexte to hym adioynaunt.
1557. T. Phaer, Æneid, VII. S iij. Along dame Circes coast adioynant next their course they cut.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 116 a. To the town there is adjoynant in site,… an ancient Castle.
B. sb. One living close by; a near neighbor.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 186. To greve and hurte his Neighbors and Adjoynauntes of the realme of Englande.
