2. The expression of joy or gladness.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous.
Ps. cxviii. 15. 3. That which causes to rejoice; occasion of joy.
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
Ps. cxix.
111. Rejoicingly
(Re*joi"cing*ly), adv. With joi or exultation.
Rejoin
(Re*join") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejoined (-joind"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoining.] [F. rejoindre; pref.
re- re- + joindre to join. See Join, and cf. Rejoinder.]
1. To join again; to unite after separation.
2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot.
Pope. 3. To state in reply; — followed by an object clause.
Rejoin
(Re*join"), v. i.
1. To answer to a reply.
2. (Law) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
Rejoinder
(Re*join"der) n. [From F. rejoindre, inf., to join again. See Rejoin.]
1. An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
2. (Law) The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.
Syn. — Reply; answer; replication. See Reply.
Rejoinder
(Re*join"der), v. i. To make a rejoinder. [Archaic]
Rejoindure
(Re*join"dure) n. Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" Shak.
Rejoint
(Re*joint") v. t.
1. To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow.
2. Specifically (Arch.), to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged
by age and the action of the weather. Gwilt.
Rejolt
(Re*jolt") n. A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil. [R.]
These inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind.
South. Rejolt
(Re*jolt"), v. t. To jolt or shake again. Locke.
Rejourn
(Re*journ") v. t. [Cf. F. réajourner. See Adjourn.] To adjourn; to put off. [Obs.] Shak.
Rejournment
(Re*journ"ment) n. Adjournment. [Obs.]
