单词 | adjoined |
释义 | adjoinedadj.n. A. adj. 1. Adjacent, contiguous; neighbouring; (also) joined, attached, connected. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > adjacent joiningc1385 joinantc1405 adjacentc1425 adjoinant1429 adject?a1475 adjoined?1556 adjoining1577 conjoining1579 bystanding1622 annexed1634 verging1796 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] annect?a1440 adjoined?1556 affixed1563 appendinga1661 alligateda1676 attached1777 ?1556 L. Digges Tectonicon iii. sig. Biii None otherwyse of the adioyned. n. o. p. q. and all other fygures folowynge, and other whatsoeuer they are, that by any meanes may be brought into triangles. 1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Scotl. (new ed.) 310/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The king of England..had none other mind, but that a perpetuall friendship might alwaies remaine betweene the adioined kingdoms. 1622 tr. R. Verstegan Newes from Low-countreyes 75 The cleering of other Catholike Priests, and spirituall persons, that secretly remayne in Holland, & in the adioyned Prouinces. 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 600 From these Considerations I have formed the adjoyned Table. 1695 W. Alingham Geom. Epitomiz'd 11 The Angle ABD contained under the adjoined lines BA, BD. 1798 J. B. S. Morritt Vindic. Homer ii. 91 Our first object was to examine the nature of the fountains below the village, from which we took the adjoined view. 1821 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 111 412 As may be seen in the adjoined plate. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 36 The adjoined concavities..of two adjacent vertebræ, constitute a rounded opening termed an intervertebral foramen. 1903 Strand Mag. May 543 The adjoined photograph might be that of a ghost. 1968 Language 44 231 In the Katz-Postal-Chomsky formulation, the status of the adjoined passive formative be + En is not sufficiently clear. 2006 R. LeCara Forgotten Prophecy viii. 51 The Pope's bedroom was an adjoined room off to the right. 2. Additional, supplementary. Also: (of a person): appointed in a supplementary or subordinate role. ΚΠ 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 12 There was added 11 daies called Æpactæ, as adioyned daies. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iii. 122 We cannot with any shew of reason affirme, that shee hath been deprived thereof by the adjoyned confort, and helpe of sacred writ. 1684 R. Baxter Catholick Communion 37 Davids Lies are recorded without adjoyned reproof. 1768 Scots Mag. Aug. 407 Now a member, or pretending to be a member of the town-council of the said burgh, as an adjoined counsellor for the said year. 1841 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 4 58 There are a considerable number of adjoined professors (agrégés) attached to the faculty [of medicine at the Paris Academy]. 1855 W. B. Hayden On Phenomena Mod. Spiritualism (ed. 2) iv. 98 Sometimes the finger is conducted in the writing by a higher power..with an adjoined perception of the subject. 1900 Albany Med. Ann. Nov. 597 Bates insists that no other substance should be added to the solution as a preservative. After many experiments he concludes that such an adjoined preservative was useless. 2008 Swindon Advertiser (Nexis) 18 Oct. The Royal Eastbourne player..landed a £500 bonus and trophy..for topping an adjoined ranking designed to reward players who had played at least four events in the season. B. n. With the. An adjoined or attached item; spec. (in earlier use) a supplementary or supporting document. ΚΠ 1638 in A. Collins Lett. & Mem. State (1746) II. 554 I have now..deliver'd the adjoined to her Majesty with my owne Hand. 1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 309 You will see in one of the adioined where my L.D. of Buck is now and hath lately beene. 1714 Let. in J. Swift Wks. (1784) XI. 445 I have given you the trouble of the adjoined for the Dean, as also a scrap of a letter for him which we had begun at our club, but did not finish. 1818 B. O'Reilly Greenland i. 35 The snow fell in increased quantity... The adjoined is an accurate sketch. 1859 H. Douglas Observ. Mod. Systems Fortification iii. 89 Soon after this conversation the author received a letter from the illustrious Duke, of which the adjoined is a facsimile. 1900 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 35 96 The adjoined of a given group Gr would appear as a mixed group containing more than r parameters, some of which, however, do not vary continuously. 1972 D. P. Henry Medieval Logic & Metaphysics 124 For even as the two (namely the adjoined and that to which it is adjoined) when combined form together a whole in relation to each part, so also when disjoined these were the whole in relation to the same parts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.?1556 |
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