Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining
highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of
it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain.
Adjacent
(Ad*ja"cent), n. That which is adjacent. [R.] Locke.
Adjacently
(Ad*ja"cent*ly), adv. So as to be adjacent.
Adject
(Ad*ject") v. t. [L. adjectus, p. p. of adjicere to throw to, to add to; ad + jacere to throw. See
Jet a shooting forth.] To add or annex; to join. Leland.
Adjection
(Ad*jec"tion) n. [L. adjectio, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjection. See Adject.] The act or mode of
adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.
Adjectional
(Ad*jec"tion*al) a. Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. [R.] Earle.
Adjectitious
(Ad`jec*ti"tious) [L. adjectitius.] Added; additional. Parkhurst.
Adjectival
(Ad`jec*ti"val) a. Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.
W. Taylor (1797)
Adjectivally
(Ad`jec*ti"val*ly), adv. As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.
Adjective
(Ad"jec*tive) a. [See Adjective, n.]
1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.
2. Not standing by itself; dependent.
Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.
3. Relating to procedure. "The whole English law, substantive and adjective." Macaulay.
Adjective
(Ad"jec*tive), n. [L. adjectivum (sc. nomen), neut. of adjectivus that is added, fr. adjicere: cf.
F. adjectif. See Adject.]
1. (Gram.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something
attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else.
Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.
2. A dependent; an accessory. Fuller.
Adjective
(Ad"jec*tive), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjectived ; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjectiving ] To make an
adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [R.]
Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also
the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three.
Tooke.
Adjectively
(Ad"jec*tive*ly), adv. In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.
Adjoin
(Ad*join") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjoined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjoining.] [OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre,
F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Adjunct.] To join or unite to; to
lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note.
Watts.
Adjoin
(Ad*join") v. i.
