[ad. late L. adjacentia, n. of state f. adjacent-em: see ADJACENT. In med.L. the pl. adjacentiae was in common use for ‘loca vicina’ dependencies.]
1. The quality or state of being adjacent, or of lying near; contiguity.
1805. B. Montagu, trans. Bacon’s De Sap. Veter. (1860), 217. Regard is justly had to contiguity, or adjacency, in private lands and possessions.
1858. De Quincey, Autobiog. Sk., Wks. II. 37. All great cities that ever were founded have sought out, as their first and elementary condition, the adjacency of some great cleansing river.
2. That which lies near. pl. Adjacent or contiguous places, environs, precincts, vicinity.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 64. At that point the needle conforms unto the true Meridian, and is not distract by the vicinity of Adjacencyes.
1726. De Foe, Hist. Devil (1822), 61. He pitches his grand army, or chief encampment, in our adjacencies, or frontiers.
1809. Pinkney, Trav. France, 29. I returned to Calais, and was accompanied to the immediate adjacency by one of the parties.
1866. Carlyle, E. Irving, 272. The Palais Royal and adjacencies.
