[f. prec. sb.] trans. To settle a jointure upon; to provide with a jointure: see prec. 4.
a. 1634. Randolph, Poems (1638), 6. But what fond virgin will my love preferre, That only in Parnassus joynture her?
1667–8. Pepys, Diary, 10 Feb. She to have £600 presently, and … to be joyntured in £60 per annum.
1762. Foote, Lyar, III. Wks. 1799, I. 313. She’ll be easily jointur’d.
1885. Law Rep. 28 Chanc. Div. 205. Trusts which gave A. and B. respectively … powers of jointuring their wives.
