a. Forms: 4–5 ioynant, 5 ioyn(e)aunt, iunant, 9 joinant. [a. F. joignant, pr. pple. (used adj.) of joindre to join: see -ANT1.]

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  † 1.  Adjoining, adjacent: = JOINING ppl. a. 2. Obs.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 202. The grete tour … Was euene ioynant to the gardyn wal.

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1447–8.  Shillingford, Lett., 86. A cloyster joynaunt to the seide Cathedrall Churche.

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  2.  Her. = CONJOINED c.

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1828–40.  Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Gloss., Joinant, a term in Heraldry, which signifies the same as conjoined.

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