ppl. a. [f. ADJOIN + -ING2.]

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  1.  Lying next, contiguous, adjacent; neighboring:

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1494.  Fabyan, VI. cc. 208. Other countrees adioynynge dyd the same.

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1794.  Sullivan, View of Nat., I. 291. The seas, forests, and adjoining mountains.

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1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 506. To step aside into some adjoining room.

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  b.  with const. of the vb. See ADJOIN 5, 6.

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1523.  Fitzherbert, Husb. (1534), E 4. Adioynynge to the ende of the same, make an other lyttell folde.

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a. 1593.  Marlowe, Dido, I. i. 374. The land … Adjoining on Agenor’s stately town.

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1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. x. 5. Our Foote Vpon the hilles adioining to the Citty, Shall stay with vs.

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1667.  E. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., I. I. iii. (1743), 6. Eton, a village adjoining to Windsor.

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1745.  in Col. Rec. Penn., V. 29 Who had Lands adjoining the Road.

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1864.  D. Mitchell, Wet Days, 62. Adjoining this is a tower.

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  2.  fig. Pertaining, belonging; connected.

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1494.  Fabyan, I. iv. 11. With also the Commodities therunto adioynynge.

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1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 28. The words and sentences either adjoyning, or intermingled with those speeches.

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1869.  Buckle, Civilis., III. v. 417. Considerations, which are to be taken partly from the adjoining sciences.

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