ppl. a.1 [f. JOIN v.1 + -ED1.]

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  1.  Put together, connected, combined, united, etc.: see the verb.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 199/2. Iuned, coniunctus.

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1704.  Addr. Canterbury, 15 Aug., in Lond. Gaz., No. 4047/2. The Joyn’d Forces of Your Majesty’s Enemies.

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1742.  Richardson, Pamela, IV. 201. Pointing to the Backs of three Chairs, which I had placed in a join’d Row.

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1885.  Athenæum, 21 March, 375/3. A new shorthand, with joined vowels.

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  2.  Put together, as a whole; constructed by joining the parts; spec. of furniture, etc., Made by a joiner. ? Obs. Joined stool: see JOINT-STOOL.

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1434.  [see JOINT-STOOL 1].

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1520.  Sir R. Elyot, Will, in T. Elyot’s Gov. (1883), I. App. A. 312. Al my beddyng and naprye…, except my ioyned presse.

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1566.  Trinity Coll. Inv., in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), III. 361. Item three Joyned trustles vnder the highe table. Item a joynid Chare for the maister.

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1588.  Will, in Trans. Cumb. & West. Arch. Soc., X. 41. One coverlett one blanckett and also one ioyned bedstead.

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1699.  Dampier, Voy., II. 62. In laying on the Lack upon good and fine joyned work they frequently spoil the joynts, edges, or corners of Drawers of Cabinets.

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  3.  That has joined, or become a member of, some society; received into membership.

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1849.  C. Brontë, Shirley, viii. 110. Praise God!… I’m a joined Methody!

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1889.  Tablet, 2 Nov., 691. A ‘joined member’ of the Wesleyan Society.

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  † Joined ppl. a.2: see JOIN v.2, to enjoin.

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