Obs. [Aphetic for ajoyne (ADJOIN v. ¶), for ENJOIN.]
1. trans. To enjoin or impose (penance, a task, etc.) upon a person. Const. to (the person), or with simple dative. = ENJOIN 2.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 11782. Blelyche in penaunce for to do Alle þat he ioyneþ þe vnto.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), VII. 291.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 112. Þat makyth a man noȝt gladly to do penaunce þat þe preest ioyneth hym.
1528. Tindale, Obed. Chr. Man, Wks. (1573), 155. They ioyne them penaunce, as they call it.
2. To enjoin or charge (a person) to (the task), or with inf. or subord. clause; rarely with complement (quot. c. 1400). = ENJOIN 2 c, e.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 877. Who Ioyned þe be Iostyse our iapez to blame.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 2355. First, I ioigne the, here in penaunce,—That … Thou set thy thought in thy loving To last withouten repenting.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1868), 52. And they that dede the dede were ioyned to penaunce.
1563. Lord J. Gray, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. II. 273. I wolde I were the Queenes Confessor this Lent, that I might joine her in pennaunce to forgeve and forget.
1563. Homilies, II. On Rogat. Week, III. Remember … your duetie of thankes…. Stil ioyne your selfe to continue in thankes geuinge.
Hence † Joined ppl. a.
c. 1475. Partenay, 5145. To go and do ioyned pennaunce.
