They join them penance, as they call it.
Tyndale.
5. To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter,
battle, issue. Milton.
To join battle, To join issue. See under Battle, Issue.
Syn. -- To add; annex; unite; connect; combine; consociate; couple;
link; append. See Add.
Join, v. i. To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together;
to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the bones of the skull join;
two rivers join.
Whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
Acts xviii. 7.
Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with
the people of these abominations?
Ezra ix. 14.
Nature and fortune joined to make thee great.
Shak.
Join, n. (Geom.) The line joining two points; the point common to two
intersecting lines. Henrici.
Join"ant (?), a. [OF. & F. joignant, p. pr. of joindre to join.]
Adjoining. [Obs.] Chaucer.