[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.
1542. 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. Bodies, 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. 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. Ibid. (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, 95. In Paris you had to cross the road from the Annexe, by the Seine, to get at them.
1862. Times, 27 March, 6/4. The western annexe for machinery is being rapidly completed.
1863. Mary Howitt, trans. Bremer’s Greece, II. xvi. 149. A little metochi, or annex to the Jerusalem monastery.
1883. Pall Mall G., 20 March, 4/1. Notwithstanding the success of Newnham and Girton, and of the Woman’s Annex at Harvard, it has pleased Dr. Dix and others to denounce the higher education of women as if it were certain to result in the ruin of the sex.
