1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 133 The words are directed to Timothie only: the adioyning of some other, is but the interpretation of some fewe.

1592 G. Babington Certaine Comfortable Notes Genesis (xxii.) f. 92 Thus would God commend vnto all the worlde, the adioyning of outwarde workes to inwarde fayth.

1610 R. Field Fifth Bk. of Church xii. 31 Not a composition of a third thing out of the things vnited, but an adioyning of one of the things vnited to the other.

1749 T. Birch Hist. View Negotiations 97 He could not enjoy his old charges without the aggregation and adjoining of others in commission with him.

1786 Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis 2 50 The adjoining of the aspirate H so as to make a bh or mh.

1831 B. Silliman Elements Chem. II. 431 By simply cutting a folded sheet with warm scissors, adjoining of the edges will take place, which may be perfected by pressure of the nails.

1854 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 23 June Let me endeavour to give our readers some idea of this city (no longer a borough) and some of its adjoinings and surroundings.

1911 Chester (Pa.) Times 5 Sept. 2/7 Work commenced on the adjoining of these supports.

1956 Ruston (Louisiana) Daily Leader 23 Oct. 6/5 It is the intent to prevent the construction of the Highway,..by the use of all available legal procedure, including the adjoining of such construction.

2007 M. Chyutin & B. Chyutin Archit. & Utopia: Israeli Exper. iii. 66 The increased wish for privacy then led to the adjoining of a separate toilet, veranda and external storage closet to a pair of rooms.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vii. xxix. 141 He licenced the bishops & ministers of the adioyning villages & cities.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 110 Return, is either of the adjoining sides of the front of an House, or Ground-plot, of some called a Return side.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Place The apparent, secundary or sensible Position of such a Body, with repect to other contiguous or adjoyning Bodies.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 291 The seas, forests, and adjoining mountains.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 506 To step aside into some adjoining room.

1869 Illustr. Photgrapher 19 Nov. 524/2 The right position of the lenses for working properly is as represented in the adjoining diagram.

1927 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop v. ii. 171 Father Vaillant went into the adjoining room to put on his cassock and stole.

1974 W. Condry Woodlands xiii. 152 Lusitania was the name which the Romans used for Portugal and adjoining districts.

2005 D. Cruickshank Around World in 80 Treasures 17 Chan Chan was a series of individual but adjoining walled towns.

1869 Buckle's Hist. Civilisation Eng. (new ed.) III. v. 417 Considerations, which are to be taken partly from the adjoining sciences.

1887 C. S. Wynne Story of Kiss II. xvi. 295 Any advances to Harry, however cautiously masked by an adjoining interest in his horse or his dog, were received with an unsuspecting cordiality.

1940 W. Anderson Fund. Amer. Govt. i. 2 He sometimes works outward rather far into adjoining fields of social knowledge.

1998 R. K. Garelick Rising Star i. 19 While homosexuality is not a defining quality or a requirement for dandyism, it is an unsurprising adjoining topic.