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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subjoin.

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Examples

  • And after the period 14 years the agreement subjoins in the words of the Act the copyright to the author if living.

    Letter 285 2009

  • Had Mr. Lowde considered this, he would have found it little to his purpose to have quoted this passage in a sense I used it not; and would I imagine have spared the application he subjoins to it, as not very necessary.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • To explain and illustrate what he had advanced, the author subjoins the following case.

    1760 diet revolution | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006

  • - And yet he immediately subjoins a very hard and difficult proviso to this indulgence. — “Provided,” says he, “it be with this caution, that they have those enjoyments only as the consequences of the state of esteem and acceptation they are in with their parents and governors.”

    Pamela 2006

  • Had Mr. Lowde considered this, he would have found it little to his purpose to have quoted this passage in a sense I used it not; and would I imagine have spared the application he subjoins to it, as not very necessary.

    God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

  • But in his Third Book of Nature, having said that it is profitable for a fool to live rather than to die, though he is never to become wise, he subjoins: “For such is the nature of good things among mortals, that evil things are in some sort chosen before indifferent ones.”

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • For having said, that neither does every good thing equally cause joy, nor every good deed the like glorying, he subjoins these words: “For if a man should have wisdom only for a moment of time or the final minute of life, he ought not so much as to stretch out his finger for such a shortlived prudence.”

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • And having said in his book concerning the Use of Speech, that we ought no more to use the force of reason than of arms for such things as are not fitting, he subjoins this: “For they are to be employed for the finding out of truths and for the alliance of them, and not for the contrary, though many men do it.”

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • To the former prophecies he subjoins others drawn from

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Since, then, the first day which was created along with the heavens constituted the beginning of all time (for thus Moses wrote, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," and then immediately subjoins, "And one day was made," as if he would designate the whole of time by one part of it), Plato names the day "time," lest, if he mentioned the

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

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