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单词 adjoinant
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adjoinantadj.n.

Forms: late Middle English adjoignant, late Middle English adjoynant, late Middle English adjoynante, late Middle English adjoynaunt, late Middle English ayunant, 1500s adioynaunt, 1500s adjonant, 1500s–1600s adioynant.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French adjoinant, adjoindre.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman adjoinaunt, adjonaunt, ajoinaunt, Anglo-Norman and Middle French adjoinant (French adjoignant ) neighbouring, contiguous (1296 in Old French; the use as noun is apparently not paralleled in French), use as adjective of present participle of adjoindre, ajoindre adjoin v. Compare later adjoining adj.
Obsolete.
A. adj.
= adjoining adj.Frequently as postmodifier.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > adjacent
joiningc1385
joinantc1405
adjacentc1425
adjoinant1429
adject?a1475
adjoined?1556
adjoining1577
conjoining1579
bystanding1622
annexed1634
verging1796
1429–30 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Sept. 1429 §30. m. 9 The saide toune of Teukesbury is nygh adjoynaunt to the rever of Severne.
1472 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1880) 13 462 (MED) The contry adjoynaunt of all the seyd londs & tenements.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxviii. f. lvv Assautis vpon ye Saxons nexte to hym adioynaunt.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. S.iij Along dame Circes coast adioynant next their course they cut.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 116 To the town there is adioynant in site,..an ancient Castle.
B. n.
A near neighbour; an associate.
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c1526 Sir T. Clifford Let. 18 Oct. in Camden Misc. (1992) XXXI. 71 Seynt Petre chyrch of Rome spoyled and robbed by soldyours and oder adjonantes.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxv To greue and hurte his neighbors and adioynauntes, of the realme of England.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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