▪ I. annex, v.
(əˈnɛks)
Also 4–6 anex(e, 5–7 annexe, 6 adnex.
[a. Fr. annexe-r to join, f. a(n)nexe:—L. annex-um, pa. pple. of annect-ĕre or adnect-ĕre to tie to, f. ad to + nect-ĕre to tie, bind. In med.L. annex-āre, = Fr. annexer, was in common use in sense 3, in eccles. and legal language, and probably contributed to the same formal use in Eng.; hence also annexātio: see annexation.]
I. Without the idea of subordination.
1. To join, unite (to): a. things. arch.
| 1425 E.E. Wills (1882) 64 I haue annexed þis my wille with my testament..vnder my seal of myn armes. 1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 12 To annexe the loue of god and of your feithe vnto sapience. 1538 Leland Itin. II. 98 Whos Chirch was hard adnexid to the Est of the Paroch Chirch. 1598 R. Barckley Felic. Man. (1631) 673 The soule that is annexed to the body. 1641 French Distill. iii. (1651) 86 The last crooked pipe, to which you must annex a receiver. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xx. 503 The windmill was probably turned to the wind by a pole annexed to an axle at the base. |
† b. persons. Obs.
| 1526 Skelton Magnyf. 200 Good fortune hath annexed us together. 1642 Rogers Naaman 31 She will annexe and apply her selfe to Christ (after a fashion) for aide. |
II. To join in a subordinate capacity. Const. to.
2. To join or unite materially, as an accessory. arch.
| 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. §10 Some places instituted for physic have annexed the commodity of gardens for simples. 1628 Prynne Love-Lockes 18 Ye annex I know not what enormities of Periwiges, and counterfeite Haire. 1671 J. Webster Metallogr. x. 141 Having annexed to it some slates and other matter. 1863 Kemble Resid. Georgia 18 To each settlement is annexed a cook's shop. |
3. To add as an additional part to existing possessions (with or without local contiguity).
| 1509 Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 202 Our marches marring as much as he [the Turk] may do, And much of them annexeth his vnto. 1534 tr. Polyd. Verg., Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 57 Julius Cæsar annexed Brittaine to the Romaine emperie. 1684 Scanderbeg Rediv. ii. 10 This Country..has now annext the Great Dukedom of Lithuania. 1768 Blackstone Comm. II. 273 Appropriators may annex the great tithes to the vicarages. 1800 Wellington in Gurwood Disp. I. 60 The whole country is permanently annexed to the British Empire. |
4. To add to a composition or book, to append.
| c 1450 Merlin xx. 327 That he dide write, he anexed to the booke that Blase wrote. 1592 tr. Junius on Rev. xx, This story of the Dragon must bee anexed unto that place. 1641 Hinde Bruen xxxviii. 117 He presently annexeth a note of remembrance. 1667 Boyle in Phil. Trans. II. 601 To which he annexes a Disquisition of the Scurvey. 1799 S. Turner Anglo-Sax. (1828) I. 312 He annexes almost invariably a lamentation of their festive indulgence. 1871 C. Davies Metric Syst. iii. 145 To complete the system a vocabulary of new denominations was annexed. |
5. To affix (a seal; hence a signature or other mark of sanction). arch.
| 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 43 Nothing..was accounted of any force, except his [the emperor's] approbation were thereunto annexed. 1644 Milton Areop. (Arb.) 59 Examin'd by an appointed officer, whose hand should be annext. 1659 Baxter in R. Eedes Christ's Exalt. To Reader, Chearfully annex thy attestation that they are true. 1771 Junius Lett. xlviii. 252 What further sanction..will you annex to any resolution of the present house of Commons? |
6. To join or attach as an attribute or qualification.
| c 1386 Chaucer Wife's T. 291 That genterye Is nought annexed [v.r. anexed] to possessioun. 1430 Lydg. Chron. ii. x, Seying in hym most vertuous and good Mercye annexed vnto royall blode. 1537 ? Tindale Exp. John 32 The dedes were unperfecte, and had synne annexed unto them. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. ii. xviii. 91 It is annexed to the Soveraignty, to be Iudge. a 1778 Anecd. Pitt III. xxxix. 53 The privileges..which are annexed to the peerage. 1817 Chalmers Astr. Disc. ii. 45 When we look back on the days of Newton, we annex a kind of mysterious greatness to him. |
7. To add or attach as a condition.
| 1588 Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. xii. 53 b, Such conditions as were annexed to the first donation. 1628 Meade in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 348 I. 278 There was annexed to that Report that the Judges should sitt at the Tower. 1754 Hume Hist. Eng. viii, He, though he granted him the commission, annexed a clause, that it should not empower him, etc. 1818 Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. iv. 392 The cortes..having made a grant to Henry III, annexed this condition. |
8. To attach as a consequence.
| 1538 Starkey England 95 Thys thyngys folow, and be annexyd as commyn effectys. 1561 T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. iv. xix. (1634) 723 Extreme annointing hath neither ordinance of God to be grounded on, nor promise of grace annexed. 1708 Swift Sacram. Test Wks. 1755 II. i. 126 It is not reasonable that revenues should be annexed to one opinion more than another. 1736 Butler Anal. ii. v. 200 The future Punishment, which God has annext to Vice. 1876 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma 7 Salvation is not annexed to a right knowledge of geometry. |
▪ II. annex(e, n.
(ˈænɛks, əˈnɛks)
[a. Fr. annexe that which is joined:—L. annex-um: see prec. Obs. bef. 1700 exc. in Sc. Law, but lately re-adopted in Fr. form in senses 2 and 4; the tendency, however, is to drop the final -e, and treat the word as Eng.]
† 1. Something annexed; an adjunct, accessory. Obs.
| 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg., Of naturall thynges, and of vnnaturall thynges, and also of theyr annexes. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. x. (1686) 29 Satan hath assumed the annexes of Divinity. 1686 Goad Celest. Bod. i. iv. 13 Which Dayes being Festival, or notable, for the Annex of some Mart, Fair, or other Solemnity. |
2. Sc. Law. An appurtenance.
| 1540 Acts James V (1841) 361 (Jam.) The landis, lordschip, and baronie of Annendale..thare annexis and connexis and all thare pertinentis. 1814 Scott Wav. xix, With the manor-place thereof, tofts—crofts—mosses..annexis—connexis. |
3. a. An addition to a document; an appendix.
| 1647 Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. i. 7 In the annexes of the several expressions such things are expressed. 1649 ― Gt. Exemp. x. §37 Moses did in other annexes of his law forbid fornication. 1667 Decay Chr. Piety xi. §1 (1683) 316 Not the testament of our dying Redeemer, but some codicils and annexes of our own. Mod. The annex to the Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1878. |
† b. in Logic; (see quot.) Obs. rare.
| 1660 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 311/2 Adnex (which some reckon as a species of the connex)..an axiom connected by the conjunction whereas, beginning with an axiom, and ending with an axiom; as, whereas it is day, it is light. |
4. From the mod.Fr. annexe, as applied to additional parts of an exhibition building: a supplementary building designed to supply extra accommodation for some special purpose; a wing.
| 1861 Cornh. Mag. July 94 In Paris you had to cross the road from the Annexe. 1862 Times 27 Mar., The western annexe for machinery is being rapidly completed. 1863 M. Howitt Bremer's Greece II. xvi. 149 A little metochi, or annex to the Jerusalem monastery. 1883 Pall Mall G. 20 Mar. 4/1 The success of Newnham and Girton, and of the Woman's Annex at Harvard. |