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Adjoin   /ədʒˈɔɪn/   Listen
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Adjoin  v. t.  (past & past part. adjoined; pres. part. adjoining)  To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. "Corrections... should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note."



Adjoin  v. i.  
1.
To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. "When one man's land adjoins to another's." Note: The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent.
2.
To join one's self. (Obs.) "She lightly unto him adjoined side to side."






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"Adjoin" Quotes from Famous Books



... dark recesses of the room that seemed to adjoin the one of the locked door. Jack could see a window ahead, for a certain amount of light filtered through the small dusty diamond-shaped panes of glass. He even noted a tree without, its branches moving in the breeze that crossed this ridge elevation, though ...
— Air Service Boys Flying for Victory - or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold • Charles Amory Beach

... the document. The stamp was then to be affixed in the presence of his majesty, by some person whom his majesty should command to do so by word of mouth. The presence of certain high officers of state was likewise required to attest what had been done; and the party affixing the stamp was to adjoin to the royal signature the words, "In his majesty's presence, and by his majesty's command," and subscribe the same with his own name. The bill was limited in its ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... adjoin, annex, augment, extend, make up, affix, append, cast up, increase, subjoin, amplify, attach, enlarge, join ...
— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald

... mentioned in guide-books), since it was rebuilt about the same time as the new church first rose. It is just a big, comfortable, warm, cool, shady sort of house, with a large hall and a fine oak staircase, surrounded by lawns and shrubberies, that adjoin on the west the lower slopes, first of the park and then of the moors that stretch away over ...
— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson

... Bruchhausen, a red beacon should rise up from my sheepfolds and barns, which meant nothing else than that thou wouldst burn the whole good town of Stargard, for thou knowest well that all the sheepfolds and barns of the burghers adjoin one to the other? Canst thou deny this, O thou lost son? If so, ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V1 • William Mienhold


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