rejoin

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɪn

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

French rejoindre; pref. re- re- + joindre to join. See join, and confer rejoinder.

Verb

rejoin (third-person singular simple present rejoins, present participle rejoining, simple past and past participle rejoined)

1. To join again; to unite after separation.
2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 16

     The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:

3. (archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'

4. (archaic, intransitive): To answer to a reply.
5. (law, intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

Anagrams

• joiner