a1449 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 125 Thes aunsweris thus made..we the Mayer and Comminalte..praying you..that the Bisshop Deane and Chapitre do the same..that yet buth byhynde of rejoynyng to our Articles.

1457 in W. P. Baildon Sel. Cases Chancery (1896) 148 (MED) This is the reioynyng of Nicoll Marshall vnto the replicacion of Robert Bale.

1681 H. Dodwell Reply Mr. Baxter's Pretended Confut. 93 They will force me instead of yielding or rejoyning, to cast my self upon the indifferent and impartial Readers candour to judge between us.

1791 S. Kyd Treat. Law of Awards vi. 211 The replication had prevented the defendant from rejoining.

1848 Law Times 13 May 129/1 Rejoining gratis means rejoining without a rule for that purpose.

1526 Grete Herball sig. Ddiii/1 Resouder..is a reioynynge of woundes.

1573 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 147 The proclamasyon for reioynyng of the Parlament.

1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. Gen. Coll. Disc. Virtuosi France iii. 13 Man hath been united hypostatically to God the Son, who is the Idea of the Father, for the rejoyning of all the productions of the world to their first Principle.

1711 tr. Curiosa Arcana ii. iv. 146/1 Do all in such Sort that the inner Mould of Earth hinder not the re-joining of that of Plaister.

1853 J. Paget Lect. Surgical Pathol. I. viii. 172 The mere re-union or re-joining of the divided parts.

1890 Mind 15 392 As analytic, as a detaching of what has been grouped, the proposition still expresses joining, and until the statement becomes purely formal and practically meaningless the re-joining is always a strengthening of the concept, and formative in its value.

1973 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 70 977/1 In this preliminary report we describe a primary human fibroblast strain derived from a progeroid patient that appears incapable of the normal rejoining of DNA strand breaks induced by cobalt-60 gamma rays.