v. Obs.; also 5 aiust, 6 adjust. [a. MFr. adjoust-er (mod. ajouter), OFr. ajouster, ajoster, ajuster to place beside; in 14th c. to add:—late L. adjuxtā-re = approximāre, f. ad to + juxtā hard by, close to. Occ. written adjust either in imitation of one of the OFr. spellings, or of med.L. adjustāre, formed on Fr. ajouster, ajuster, under the false idea that these were f. ad and jūstum; but to be distinguished from the modern ADJUST, q.v.]
1. To put a thing (to one) for consideration; to bring forward, suggest.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boethius, II. (R.) (? ed. 1561). For whan time is I shal moue and aiust soch things, that percen hem ful depe. [The words and aiust are not in ed. Morris E. E. T. S., 43.]
a. 1521. Helyas, in Thoms’ E. E. P. Rom. (1858), III. 90. She never propenced it, but myselfe adjusted it to her.
2. To put one thing to another, to add. Esp. in adjouste feyth, OFr. ajouster fey to give faith or credence.
1474. Caxton, Chesse, IV. viii. l 6. He adjousted wyth al that he had founden thys game. Ibid. (1483), Cato, c viij. Man ought not to beleue no adjouste feyth to the sayeng of many one. Ibid., Gold. Leg., 316/4. Adjoustyng woodenes to wodenes. Ibid. (1484), Chyualry, 88. They adiouste feyth to deuynours. Ibid. (1484–5), Curial, 1. Thou adioustest other causes that meve the therto.
1530. Palsgr., 417/2. I adjoust or joyne togyther, Je adjouste … and this terme is not yet used [i.e., no longer] in our comen speche though Lydgate have it ofte tymes.
[From this it appears that ADJOUST was obs. in 1530. See ADJUTE, which seems to be a readoption of the word from Fr. adjouter.]
