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To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot. Pope.

To make a rejoinder. [Archaic]

Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" (i.e., kisses). Shak.

To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow.

To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

rous; ready; apt; felicitous. One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. Swift. Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. -- Happ…

ve; reclaim, to call out against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate, reassure. Combinations containing the prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious signification.

To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant. Blackstone.

The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

Same as Surrejoinder.