injoint

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Etymology edit

Verb edit

injoint (third-person singular simple present injoints, present participle injointing, simple past and past participle injointed)

(obsolete) To disjoint; to separate.
- 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
  The foresaid Bridge by a mightie tempest was injointed and broken.
(obsolete) To join; to unite.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  The Ottamites. Reueren'd, and Gracious,
  Steering with due course toward the Ile of Rhodes,
  Have there injointed with an after fleet.

References edit

“injoint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.