injoint

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verb

To disjoint; to separate.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person injoints · participle present injointing · participle past injointed · past injointed

  1. obsoleteTo disjoint; to separate.

    The foresaid Bridge by a mightie tempest was injointed and broken.

    1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC
  2. obsoleteTo join; to unite.

    The Ottamites. Reueren'd, and Gracious, Steering with due course toward the Ile of Rhodes, Have there injointed with an after fleet.

    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]

Origin

From in- + joint.

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MLA

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Chicago

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