arch. Also 7 adnexion, annection. [ad. L. annexiōn-em, n. of action f. annex- ppl. stem of annect-ĕre: see ANNEX v.]

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  1.  The action of annexing; = ANNEXATION 1.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VII. v. 216. To seeke the annexion thereof to his owne Kingdome.

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1670.  G. H., Hist. Cardinals, I. III. 69. The annection of several Provinces.

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1667.  H. More, Div. Dial., V. x. (1713), 434. This signifies the adnexion of … Periods of Times to the Ministry of the Angelical Hosts.

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1807.  W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., V. 169. The use of the word annexion [by J. Gordon 1801], where annexation would be written by the slaves of usage … is unquestionably right.

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  † 2.  That which is annexed, attached or appended; an addition, adjunct. Obs.

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c. 1600.  ? Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 208. These talents of their hair … With the annexions of fair gems enrich’d.

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a. 1641.  Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., 418. Which traditions the Pharisees did not recommend as commentaries only … but as necessary annexions unto the Law.

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1748.  A. Hill, in Mrs. Barbauld’s Richardson (1804), I. 129. Every thing [is] unsimple, that has foreign and unnatural annexions.

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