[ad. L. adjunctiōnem, n. of action, f. adjunct- ppl. stem of adjung-ĕre: see ADJUNCT. Cf. Fr. adjonction (14th c. in Littré.)]
1. The joining on or adding of a thing or person (to another).
1618. Raleigh, Rem. (1644), 270. That supposition, that your Majesties Subjects give nothing but with adjunction of their own interest.
1650. R. Stapylton, Strada’s Lower Countrey Warres, III. 71. It never entered into his mind, by that adjunction of Bishops to impose the Spanish Inquisition upon the Low-countreys.
1817. Coleridge, Biogr. Lit., 182. This adjunction of epithets for the purpose of additional description.
1868. Daily News, 20 June, 5/1. The adjunction of the telegraph business to the Post Office.
2. That which is joined on or added; an adjunct. ? Obs.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1355. The second syllable θε is an adjunction idle and superfluous. Ibid. (1606), Sueton., Annot. 2. By Curia simply without any adiunction, is ment Curia Hostilia.
