v. Obs. Forms: 4 iois(s)en, iosyen; Sc. 4–6 ioys, 5–6 iois, 6 iose, ioyse, ioise, 7 ioiss, (9 joyse). [a. OF. joiss-, lengthened stem of joir: see JOY v. and REJOICE.]
1. refl. and intr. To rejoice.
c. 1320. Seuyn Sag. (W.), 92. That thai made so grete josying.
a. 1325. Prose Psalter cxlix. 2. Ioisen þe douȝters of Syon in her kynge.
1340. Ayenb., 25. Þus him ioisseþ and him glorifieþ þe wreche ine his herte.
2. trans. (Sc.) To enjoy the possession or use of.
a. 1400. Burgh Laws c. 41 (Sc. Stat. I.). Þan sall þe man ioys [gaudebit] all þe gudis of þat lande.
1508. Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 201. I wend I iosit a gem, and I hafe ane geit gottin.
1615. in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (1896), XXX. 56. To use and exerce the said office … als frelie … as vmquhile Schir William McDougall … bruikit and joissit the samen of before.
[c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., V. 152. To be peaceably brooked, joysed, set, used and disposed of by him and his aboves, as specified.]
