injoy

English

Verb

injoy (third-person singular simple present injoys, present participle injoying, simple past and past participle injoyed)

1. Obsolete form of enjoy.
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book I, page [28]:

     And symony they called this, to take and inioy any spirituall liuing at a secular mans hand.

   • 1598-1602, [author unknown], The Parnassus plays

     Stories of love, where forne the wondring bench,
     The lisping gallant might injoy his wench.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “An Apologie of Raymond Sebond”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 335:

     And the Chriſtian beſeecheth God, that his will may be done, leaſt hee ſhould fall into that inconvenience, which Poets faine of King Midas: who requeſted of the Gods, that whatſoever hee toucht, might bee converted into gold: his prayers were heard, his wine was gold, his bread gold, the fethers of his bed, his ſhirt and his garments were turned into gold, he found himſelfe overwhelmed in the injoying of his deſire, and being enrich’t with an intolerable commoditie, he muſt now vnpray his prayers: […]

   • 1638, A[braham] Cowley, Loves Riddle. A Pastorall Comædie; […], London: […] Iohn Dawson, for Henry Seile, […]:

     As ſick men doe their beds, ſo have I yet
     Injoy’d my ſelfe, with little reſt, much trouble:
     I have beene made the Ball of Love and Fortune,
     And am almoſt worne out with often playing.

   • 1644, Iohn Cotton, The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power Thereof, According to the VVord of God, […] Tho. Goodwin. Philip Nye. London […] M. Simmons for Henry Overton, […]:

     As hee ſuppoſeth each Congregation ſuch, as to have the priviledge of injoying a Presbyterie, or companie of more or leſſe Elders, proper unto it ſelfe; ſo being thus Presbyterated, hee aſſerteth this incorporate body or ſocietie to be the firſt and primary ſubject of a compleat and entire power within it ſelfe over its owne members; […]