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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jointure \Join"ture\, noun [F. jointure a joint, orig., a joining, L. junctura, fr. jungere to join. See {Join}, and cf. {Juncture}.]
1. A joining; a joint. [Obs.]
2. (Law) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.
The jointure that your king must make, Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jointure \Join"ture\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Jointured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jointuring}.] To settle a jointure upon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
jointure
noun
1: (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower [syn: {legal jointure}]
2: the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" [syn: {union}, {unification}, {uniting}, {conjugation}] [ant: {disunion}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "jointure": agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, appanage, articulation, bond, bracketing, clustering, combination, communication, concatenation, concourse, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connection, convergence, copulation, coupling, dot, dower, dowry, endowment, foundation, gathering, hookup, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, investment, joinder, joining, junction, knotting, legal jointure, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, marriage portion, meeting, merger, merging, pairing, portion, settlement, splice, symbiosis, thirds, tie, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, yoking
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