▪ I. connex, n.
Also 5–7 connexe.
[a. F. connexe (:—L. type *co(n)nexa), and ad. L. co(n)nexus joining, connexion, f. ppl. stem of co(n)nectĕre.]
† 1. A bond or tie. Obs. rare.
| 1490 Caxton Eneydos xiii. (1890) 47 Juno..lady, mastresse, and wardeyne, of the connexes or bondes aminicules. |
† 2. A connected incident or property. Obs.
| 1540 Sc. Acts Jas. V (1597) §84 Advocationes and donationes of Kirkes, their annexes and connexes, and all their pertinents. 1548 Hall Chron. 98 With all incidentz, circumstances, dependentes, or connexes. 1587 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §29 Togidder with all..partes, pendickles, annexes, connexes, out-settes, etc. a 1676 Hale Anal. Com. Law (1739) 52 Under every of these Distinctions, the following Connexes fall in. 1814 [see annex n. 2]. |
† 3. A connex proposition. See connex a. 2.
| 1628 T. Spencer Logick 299 This kinde of Connexe hath but three termes in it, viz. 1. Inheritance. 2. Promise. 3. Law. 1655–60 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 148/1 Dialecticks teach in their Elements whether a connex (a proposition which hath the conjunction if) be true or false. |
4. Math. [= Ger. connex, Clebsch Geometrie (1876) I. 924] A term applied to the aggregate of an infinite number of points and an infinite number of lines represented by an equation which is simultaneously homogeneous in point- and line-coordinates.
| 1874 Hirst in Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. V. 63 According to the terminology employed by Clebsch..each point of one of our two planes, and its polar in any correlation of a system constitute an element of a connex of the class µ and order ν. |
▪ II. † connex, a. Obs.
Also 6 conex, 7 connexe.
[ad. L. connex-us (in classical period cōnexus), pa. pple. of co(n)nectĕre: see connect.]
1. Connected.
| 1653 H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 185 It is also very closely connex with Piety and Religion. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 473 A connexe series of things. c 1680 in H. More Paralip. Prophet. (1685) 337 The Rind and Pulp must..be connex. |
2. Logic. Of propositions (or ‘axioms’) and reasoning: Conditional; = connexive 1.
| 1589 Marprel. Epit. B iij b, M. Deane..verye stoutly prooueth his no..by a connex axiome to beginne withall. 1641 Symonds Serm. bef. Ho. Com. B ij b, A connex proposition whereof the denial of one part is the denial of the whole. a 1699 Stillingfl. Serm. III. xii (R.), The connex way of reasoning is, saith Simplicius, when two things are joined together as antecedent and consequent. |
▪ III. † coˈnnex, v. Obs.
Also 6 connix.
[a. F. connexe-r = It. connessare:—L. type *connexāre, freq. of co(n)nectĕre, ppl. stem connex- (cōnex-): see connect, which took the place of this in the 17th c. So French connexer (15th to 17th c.), is now superseded by connecter. Cf. annex v.]
1. To join or fasten together; to connect.
| 1547 Boorde Brev. Health xxii. 14 b, The soule also is a creature made with man and connexed to man. 1578 Banister Hist. Man v. 83 Some [vessels]..are connixed together. 1665 Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 705 To connex and joyn together Works and Ways far distant each from other. 1699 J. Dickenson Jrnl. of Trav. 68 This Stone is only sand and small shells connexed together. |
2. To connect logically, or practically. Chiefly pass.
| 1541 R. Copland Galyen's Terapeutyke Pref. 2 A j b, The parties of the art of Medycyne..ben such wyse cowpled & connexed togyther. 1662 J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 119 Their effects shall of necessity be connexed to their causes. 1691 Beverley Thous. Years Kingd. Christ 34 The seven Trumpets..being so Connext with the Seals. 1857 Sat. Rev. III. 288/2 Which..is only connexed with the general purport of the book by the binder. |
b. intr. = connect 5.
| 1579 J. Field tr. Calvin's Serm. Ded., Joyning and connixing so neere with Anabaptists. |