annect

From Middle English annecte, from Latin annectere.

annect (third-person singular simple present annects, present participle annecting, simple past and past participle annected)

1. (rare) Synonym of annex.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named The Gouernour, , London: Tho. Bertheleti, folio 75, recto:

     Firſte in his cõpariſon he pꝛeferreth nat befoꝛe daũſing / oꝛ ioyneth therto any viciouſe exerciſe / but annecteth it with tillynge and diggynge of the erthe / whiche be labours incident to mannes lyuynge / and in them is contained nothynge that is vicious.

   • 1577, Socrates Scholasticus, translated by Meredith Hanmer, “The Ecclesiasticall Historie of Socrates Scholasticus ”, in The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, Wrytten in the Greeke Tongue by Three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. , London: Thomas Vautroullier , pages 343 and 397:

     GRegorie being then tranſlated from the citie Nazianzũ gouerned a certen litle church within yͤ walls of Cõſtantinople. vnto yͤ which yͤ Emperour afterwards annected a goodly temple ⁊ called it the reſurrectiõ. […] If it be any thing auaileable to annect the canon decreed in this behalfe vnto this our pꝛeſent hiſtory, let vs ſee howe ſhameleſſe theſe men were who therefoꝛe thꝛuſt Proclus beſides the biſhopꝛicke of Conſtantinople, and how vntruely they repoꝛted of the canon, foꝛ it is read as followeth.

   • 1660, H More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; or, A True and Faithfull Representation of the Everlasting Gospel of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Onely Begotten Son of God and Sovereign over Men and Angels, London: J. Flesher, for W. Morden , page 212:

     IN the Return of Chriſt to Judgment theſe Three things are to be conſidered as very nearly annected and comprehended in it; The Viſibility of his Perſon and pomp of his coming, The Reſurrection of the Dead, and Conflagration of the World.

   • 1680, Henry More, Apocalypsis Apocalypseos; or The Revelation of S^t John the Divine Unveiled. , London: J. M. for J. Martyn, and W. Kettilby, , pages 256–257:

     And to this Line, or row of Seals, Trumpets, and Thunders all the reſt of the Viſions, not only of the Opened Book, but of the Seven Churches may ſome way be annected and applyed by Synchroniſmes either proper and perfect, or by imperfect and partial, as we ſhall advertiſe as we go through them.

   • 1737, Flavius Josephus, translated by William Whiston, “Flavius Josephus of the Antiquities of the Jews”, in The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus the Jewish Historian. ‎, London, book III (), chapter VII ():

     But in the void place of this garment [the Ephod] there was inserted a piece of the bigness of a span, embroidered with gold, and the other colours of the Ephod. It is called Essen [the Breast-plate] which in the Greek language signifies the Oracle. This piece exactly filled up the void space in the Ephod. It is united to it by golden rings at every corner, the like rings being annected to the Ephod; […]

   • 1776 September 17, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, “Abstract of a Letter of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, on the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania, 1776”, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, volume XXII, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: Publication Fund of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, , published 1898, page 130:

     We seriously ask and beg therefore, wether it may please our Representatives the Hon^ble Convention to annect or add unto the 47th Section of the proposed Plan the following Words viz: “and all religious Societies and Bodies of Men heretofore united and incorporated for the Advancement of Virtue and Learning and for other pious and charitable Purposes, shall be encouraged and protected in the Enjoyment of the Privileges, Immunities and Estate, which they were accustomed to enjoy and might or could of Right have enjoyed under the Laws and former Constitution of this State.”

   • 1820, J H Green, The Dissector’s Manual, London: he Author; and sold by E. Cox, , page 121:

     The heart is of a conical figure, but is flattened on one side, where it rests upon the diaphragm, and is fixed only at its base, where it is connected by the great vessels. […] The base is placed posteriorly and superiorly towards the vertebral column, from which it is separated by the contents of the posterior mediastinum. The great vessels are annected to this part of the heart.

   • 1820 August, Ephemeris of the Distances of the Four Planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn from the Moon’s Center for 1822, to Which Are Annected Tables for Finding the Latitude by the Polar-Star for 1821 and 1822. , Copenhagen: he Royal Danish Sea-Chart-Office.  Thiele’s Office, title page:

     Ephemeris of the Distances of the four Planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn from the Moon’s Center for 1822, to which are annected Tables for finding the Latitude by the Polar-Star for 1821 and 1822.

   • 1821, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Companion to the Wye Tour. Ariconensia; or Archæological Sketches of Ross, and Archenfield: Illustrative of the Campaigns of Caractacus; the Station Ariconium, &c. , Ross: W. Farror, sold by Messrs. Nichols, , and Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, , pages 131–132:

     There were other institutions connected with the Church. One of them very ancient is clearly recognized in the following extract from the Register of Bishop Gilbert. In 1377 John Gilbert, Bishop of Hereford, unites and annects together the Chantry founded by John Rosse, Bishop of Carliol, who was borne and buried in Rosse, because of the exility of the lands by the malevolency of intruders and the scarcity of husbandmen, occasioned by the last plague, with a certain society or fraternity in the village of Rosse anciently founded, which being joyned together, one priest shall celebrate masse for the soules of the founders of each, which fraternity was dedicated of late dayes to the memoryes of the B. Virgine and S. Thomas the Martyr.

   • 1892, J Büttikofer, “The specimens of the genus Tatare in the Leyden Museum”, in F A Jentink, editor, Notes from the Leyden Museum, volume XIV, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 15:

     Compared with Mr. Tristram’s original description, however, our specimen shows some rather important differences, and even his description will not entirely agree with the plate annected to it.

   • 1963, Annemarie Schimmel, Gabriel’s Wing: A Study into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Studies in the History of Religions (Supplements to Numen); VI), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 17 and 48:

     Missionary schools were opened in all parts of the country, and their net became closer after Sind had been annected in 1843, the Panjab eventually in 1849. […] In the discussion pro and contra Ibn Saʿud who had annected the kingdom of Hijaz in 1924, and had become thence ruler of the Holy Cities, Iqbal belonged to the admirers of the king who had again introduced the stern Wahhabite form of Islam in the homeland of this religion.

• “annect, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.