ppl. a.; also annext. [f. ANNEX v. + -ED.]
† 1. Joined together without subordination of one to the other; united, conjoined, knit. Obs.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 4814. Love … is a sykenesse of the thought Annexed & kned bitwixe tweyne.
1526. Tindale, Rom. viii. 17. Heyres anexed with Christ.
1653. Rous, Myst. Marr., 57. A joynt-heir annexed with Christ.
† b. Adjoining, lying close to. Obs.
1703. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1732), 100. Several large Vaults, annext to the Mountain.
1662. Gerbier, Princ., 38. The Louver at Paris … with the delight of the annexed Tuilleries.
2. Added, attached or appended as subordinate or supplementary, subjoined; rendered subject.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., V. xi. All the eyght partes [of speech] … Are Laten wordes, annexed properly To every speche.
1548. Ld. Somerset, in Compl. Scotl., 244. Howe holdeth the Frenche King Briteigne, now lately adnexed to that Croune.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 509. The roote is somwhat thicke, with many threddy stringes therunto annexed.
1667. Milton, P. L., XII. 99. Some fatal curse annext Deprives them of thir outward libertie.
1863. Lyell, Antiq. Man, 6. The annexed tabular view.
1883. Observer, 22 April, 5/3. It is England and not Queensland that must govern the annexed natives.
