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adjoining, ppl. a.|əˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ|
[f. adjoin + -ing2.]
1. a. Lying next, contiguous, adjacent; neighbouring.
1494Fabyan vi. cc. 208 Other countrees adioynynge dyd the same. 1794Sullivan View of Nat. I. 291 The seas, forests, and adjoining mountains. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 506 To step aside into some adjoining room.
b. with const. of the vb. See adjoin 5, 6.
1523Fitzherbert Husb. (1534) E 4 Adioynynge to the ende of the same, make an other lyttell folde. a1593Marlowe Dido i. i. 374 The land..Adjoining on Agenor's stately town. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. x. 5 Our Foote Vpon the hilles adioining to the Citty, Shall stay with vs. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. i. iii. (1743) 6 Eton, a village adjoining to Windsor. 1745in Col. Rec. Penn. V. 29 Who had Lands adjoining the Road. 1864D. Mitchell Wet Days 62 Adjoining this is a tower.
2. fig. Pertaining, belonging; connected.
1494Fabyan i. iv. 11 With also the Commodities therunto adioynynge. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 28 The words and sentences either adjoyning, or intermingled with those speeches. 1869Buckle Civilis. III. v. 417 Considerations, which are to be taken partly from the adjoining sciences. |