Jointly

adv. [f. JOINT a. + -LY².] In a joint manner; so as to be joined.

  † 1.  So as to be joined in space; together (in position); in contact; adjacently. Obs.

c. 1375.  Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B.), 58. And þer-with ioyntly hold þi handes.

1574.  trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 18 b. The tenaunt shall … hold his handes iointly together between the handes of his Lord.

1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 88. But neere joynctle brayeth with rufflerye rumboled Ætna.

1710.  Burton, Truth’s Triumph, iv. 180. That whole Paragraph … being joyntly added, any Reader may compare them.

  † b.  Continuously in space or time. Obs.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 1538. This Cite was sothely, to serche it aboute, þre iorneys full iointly to ioyne hom by dayes.

1548.  G. Wishart, trans. Conf. Fayth Sweserland., in Wodrow Misc. (1844), 13. Yf there be any good that remayneth in man after the fall, that same beynge joyntelie made weaker and weaker by our vyce tournes to the worse.

  † 2.  Together, in union; concordantly, harmoniously; at the same time, simultaneously. Obs.

1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. II. 127. To loke if þe lawe wole Iugge ȝou Ioyntely to be Ioyned for euer.

a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 1470. All þe iewis of ierusalem he Ioyntly a-sembles.

1545.  Brinklow, Lament. (1874), 84. Loke … how iointly ye agre with the saide people of Iuda!

1593.  Shaks., Lucr., 1846 (1594), N i. Then ioyntlie to the ground their knees they bow.

a. 1693.  Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xlii. 352. They … went joyntly to a … Tent.

  † b.  In conjunction with this. Obs.

1656.  M. Ben Israel, Vind. Judæorum, in Phenix (1708), II. 405. Your Worship desir’d jointly to know what Ceremony or Humiliation the Jews use in their Synagogues, toward the Book of the Law.

  3.  In conjunction, combination or concert; unitedly; conjunctly: opp. to severally or separately. (The only current sense.)

c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 5850. Þarfor men sal yhelde acount ioyntly Of bathe togyder, þe saule and þe body.

c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, III. vii. (1869), 139. Soothliche this is weylinge and sorwe ioyntliche.

1469.  Waterf. Arch., in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 307. The saide Maire … byndith them yontly and severally to stand by this acte.

1491.  Act 7 Hen. VII., c. 23 § 4. Landes … wherof she … was seised or possessed in her owne right … or jointly with her said husband.

1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., IV. iv. 52. The Rascall people … Ioyne with the Traitor, and they ioyntly sweare To spoyle the City.

1676.  Dryden, Aurengz., II. i. 15. Where ’er you lead, We joyntly vow to own no other Head.

1767.  Blackstone, Comm., II. xii. 193. A devise to two persons, to hold jointly and severally, is said to be a joint-tenancy.

1875.  Bryce, Holy Rom. Emp., App. B. (ed. 5.), 450. The relation of Schleswig to Holstein, and of both jointly to the Danish crown.