Obs. [ad. L. annect-ĕre, f. an- = ad- to + nectĕre to tie, fasten; cf. connect.] = ANNEX (of which it was the earlier form).

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1531.  Elyot, Governor, I. xix. (1557), 63. But annectethe it [dancing] with tyllyng and dyggynge.

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1577.  Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619), 396. To Annect the Canon decreed in this behalfe vnto our present Historie.

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1680.  H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 257. To this Line … all the rest of the visions … may some way be annected.

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1737.  Whiston, Josephus, Hist., III. vii. (R.). The like rings being annected to the ephod.

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