annex

t. [In Fr. annexer; Sp. anezar; Port. annexar. From Lat. annerum, supine of annecto to tie on or to: ad to, and nec to =to bind to, to add to the end of anything.] L. Ordinary Language: 1. Properly: To tie to the end of; to append. 2. To add something of le er size or importance to anything else of greater size or importance existing previously. (It is often used for the addition of another kingdom or province to an empire.) "He wished to humble the United Provinces, and to anner Belgium. Franche Compté, and Loraine to his dominions."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng . , chap. ii. "The great fiefs which, three hundred years before, had been, in all but name, independent principalities, had been annered to the crown. "- / bid. 3. To connect something with another by the relation of sequence to it, as a penalty to a crime. some fatal curse annez'd , Deprives them of their outward liberty: Their inward lost."- Milton : P. L. , bk. xii. II. Technically : 1. English Law : To appropriate church lands to the Crown. 1. Scots Law : In the same sense; also to transfer church lands lying at a distance from the church to which they belong to another one to which they are more contiguous. [ANNEXATION.] * ăn-něx', s. [From the verb. In Fr. annexe; Port. annex a.] Anything annexed, appended, or added. 1. Of writings: "Moses did in other annezes of the law."- Jeremy Taylor: Of the Decalogue, Works (ed. 18.33), vol. ili., p. 43. An additional stipulation to the Anglo Turkish convention of 1878 was called an annex . 2. Of buildings: A subsidiary building added on to a main building, as in the case of the machinery annexes of the Exhibition of 1862. In this sense it is generally spelt anneze, as in French.