adjacent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ADJA'CENT, adjective Lying near, close, or contiguous; bordering upon; as, a field adjacent to the highway. ADJA'CENT, noun That which is next to or contiguous. [Little used.]
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