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Definition of Rejoin

1. Verb. Join again.

2. Verb. Answer back. "They rejoin that there was a traffic accident "

Definition of Rejoin

1. v. t. To join again; to unite after separation.

2. v. i. To answer to a reply.

Definition of Rejoin

1. Verb. To join again; to unite after separation. ¹

2. Verb. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. ¹

3. Verb. (archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause. ¹

4. Verb. (archaic intransitive): To answer to a reply. ¹

5. Verb. (legal intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rejoin

1. join [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: join

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rejoin

rejigging rejiggle rejigs rejoiced rejoicement rejoicements rejoicer rejoicers rejoices rejoicest

rejoiceth rejoicing rejoicingly rejoicings rejoin (current term) rejoinder rejoindered rejoindering rejoinders rejoindure

rejoined rejoining rejoins rejoint rejolt rejolted rejolting rejolts rejon

Literary usage of Rejoin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Practice of the Court of Chancery: With an Appendix of by John Sidney Smith (1842)
"(l2) No subpoena to rejoin is of force, unless there be a replication filed in the cause ... [a] A subpoena to rejoin may be obtained immediately after the ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1833)
"Lord LYNDHURST CB—In common practice the rule to rejoin is a four-day rule. Now the defendant's undertaking to rejoin gratis saves the expense of a rule to ..."

3. The New Chancery Practice: Being a Condensed Treatise of the Practice of the by Hubert Ayckbourn (1844)
"SUBPOENA TO rejoin. Object of.] The object of the subpoena to rejoin is merely to put the cause at issue between the parties, the practice of filing ..."

4. A Treatise on the Practice of the High Court of Chancery: With Some by Edmund Robert Daniell (1846)
"AFTER the plaintiff* has filed his replication, he should serve the defendant with a subpoena to rejoin. According to the ancient practice of the Court, ..."

5. A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott, William Charles Wermuth (1922)
"Baker v. Kansas City, St. J. & CBR Co. 107 Mo., 17 SW 816. b. Giving defendant time to rejoin.—A defendant whose motion to require plaintiff to make ..."

6. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"•does and serves subpoena to rejoin, he shall pay costs. ... After replication, the defendant may rejoin gratis, and compel the plaintiff to join in ..."

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