injoint

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ joint.

Verb

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

1. (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.

2. (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

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