v. Also 6 subion(n)e, 7 subjoyn(e. [In early use Sc.: ad. obs. F. subjoindre (15th–16th c.), ad. L. subjungĕre: see SUB- 27 and JOIN v.]
1. trans. To add at the end of a spoken or written statement, argument or discourse; sometimes, to add (a note) at the bottom of a page.
a. with words denoting the form or contents of the addition as obj.
1573. Tyrie, Refut., in Cath. Tract., 10/28. I will pass to the mater, first proponand my lettre, thairefter his ansuer … last of all I sall subione the refutatioun.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., h iiij. I haiff subionned thais twa tables following.
1656. Jeanes, Mixt. Schol. Div., 3. Having removed one feare … he subjoynes a command of an opposite fear.
1669. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. v. 27. To these we subjoyned the ancient Navigations of the Phenicians.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, i. In the same Book there are these written Notes subjoyned.
1727. Col. Rec. Pennsylv., III. 283. The several Persons whose names are subjoyned.
1785. Cowper, Lett., 5 Jan. According to your request I subjoin my Epitaph on Dr. Johnson.
1801. Med. Jrnl., V. 290. We shall subjoin, verbatim, an outline of the plan of such an institution.
1815. Scribbleomania, 248. I will … subjoin the opinion of a very clever departed writer.
1835. Thirlwall, Greece, vi. I. 187. He subjoins, as a reason, the comparatively late age of Homer and Hesiod.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), II. p. lix. We subjoin from a catalogue a list of prices.
1879. Lubbock, Addr. Pol. & Educ., iii. 59. I subjoin the answers.
b. with quoted words or reported statement as obj.; † occas. almost = REJOIN v.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 217. Bodin explaining that of Seneca, Septimus quisque annus ætati signum imprimit, subjoynes, hoc de maribus dictum oportuit [etc.].
1665. Manley, Grotius’ Low C. Wars, 725. Subjoyning at last, that they were and would be safe against the punishments of that cruel Edict.
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, I. I. 20. I subjoyn’d, I do not wonder so much.
1784. trans. Beckford’s Vathek, 154. ‘We have here then,’ subjoined Carathis, ‘a girl both of courage and science.’
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xviii. ‘She does several things very well.’ (Flirtation amongst the number subjoined I, in thought.)
1862. Goulburn, Pers. Relig., II. i. 205. ‘Work out your own salvation,’ writes the Apostle, ‘with fear and trembling’;… but then he immediately subjoins, ‘for it is God that worketh in you.’
2. To place in immediate sequence or juxtaposition; to add as a concomitant or related element.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 371. They [vowels] may be both preposed and subjoyned to themselves and to one another.
1701. Norris, Ideal World, I. ii. 123. I have subjoined a minor to his major.
1716. [see sub-adore, SUB- 8].
1751. Harris, Hermes, II. iv. 283. The Accusative is that Case, which to an efficient Nominative and a Verb of Action subjoins either the Effect or the Passive Subject.
1803. R. Hall, Sentiments Pres. Crisis, 9. The New Testament subjoins to the duty of fearing God, that of honouring the king.
1835. T. Mitchell, Acharn. Aristoph., 669, note. A single Bacchius appears to be subjoined to six anapæsts.
1856. Mary C. Clarke, trans. Berlioz’ Instrumentation, 3. When Monteverde attempted to subjoin the chord of the seventh on the dominant without preparation.
† 3. In occas. transf. uses: To attach in a subordinate position; to lie underneath and next to; to add as part of a treatment. Obs.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VIII. 369. [Fez] may rather second Grand Caire, than subioyne it selfe to Constantinople.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 26. The … last Fillet, which subjoyns the under side of the upper Thorus.
1706. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 101. There’s no bringing him to his true Temperament again, but by subjoining the Bilboes.
† 4. To add to, strengthen, reinforce; to subscribe to, second (an opinion). Obs. ? vulgar.
1810. Splendid Follies, I. 158. ‘Upon my word, sir’ replied Seraphina, heartily subjoining his laugh. Ibid., III. 65. I’m sorry to subjoin your opinion,… by observing that gallantry is too often the only characteristic of a soldier. Ibid., 195. Report whispers that she means to subjoin her income with the widow’s pittance.
Hence Subjoined ppl. a.
1812. G. Chalmers, Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit., 442. Let well intentioned men mark the subjoined detail of the real value of the imports, and exports of Ireland.
1857. Miller, Elem. Chem., Org., i. 18. The subjoined precautions are requisite.
1870. L’Estrange, Life of Miss Mitford, I. v. 125. A mother’s resentment at anything which could endanger her daughter’s success is exhibited in the subjoined letter.
1879. Encycl. Brit., X. 224/1. The subjoined table gives the results of temperature observations at widely separated localities.
