interjoin
Verb
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Verb
interjoin (interjoins, present participle interjoining; past and past participle interjoined)
- (mathematics) To interconnect two sets.
- (transitive, intransitive) To join mutually; to unite.
- circa 1607 William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene 4,
- […] so, fellest foes,
- Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,
- To take the one the other, by some chance,
- Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
- And interjoin their issues.
- 1673, John Ogilby (translator), An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China by Johan Nieuhof, London: for the author, Appendix, Chapter 5, p. 365,
- […] it is most probable to be the Port of Trapezonment, plac’d in a Corner of the Euxine Sea; for from this Port, within a few Months, Anno 1272. they came to Ancona, which could not be perform’d from the Caspian Sea, by reason of the great space of Land and Regions interjoin’d.
- 1843, James Abbott (Indian Army officer), Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, London: William H. Allen & Co., Volume I, Chapter 19, p. 259,
- The Kazakhs salutation is made, by interjoining the four hands.
- 1914, Thomas Hardy, “The Abbey Mason” in Satires of Circumstance, London: Macmillan, 1915, p. 220,
- 1987, James Herbert, Sepulchre, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988, Chapter 32, p. 229,
- He feebly lifted an arm, but the darkness was even greater inside the shroud, and all he could see was a myriad of interjoining cracks.
- circa 1607 William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene 4,
- To say by way of interruption, to interject.
- 1812, Medora Gordon Byron, The Englishman, London: A.K. Newman, Volume I, Chapter 7, p. 195,
- “No, no,” cried lady Anna, in trepidation, “leave him—let him go.”
- Lennard unloosed his hold for a moment; and regarding her ladyship with a look of jealous anger, he stood irresolute.
- “Leave him,” interjoined Wentworth. “He has abused the privileges of a social meeting, by venting the preconcerted acumen of a malicious nature; he is beneath your contempt.”
- 1821, The Adventures of a Donkey, Ostentation and Liberality, London: William Darton, Volume I, Chapter , p. 33,
- “Oh! you can have no idea of its gaiety,” returned Frances; “and such a quantity of people.”
- “A number of persons, and a quantity of goods,” interjoined Miss Colville.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening (Chopin novel), Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone, Chapter 5, pp. 26-27,
- “Perhaps I feared to make Alphonse jealous,” she interjoined, with excessive naïveté. That made them all laugh.
- 1972, Sara Hely, The Legend of the Green Man, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, 1974, Chapter 7, p. 79,
- “ […] If the notice is not too short for you, Fossick, why not join us?”
- “A capital plan, Fossick,” interjoined the judge […]
- 1812, Medora Gordon Byron, The Englishman, London: A.K. Newman, Volume I, Chapter 7, p. 195,
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