annect

present singular third person annects · participle present annecting · participle past annected · past annected

1. rareSynonym of annex.

   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.

   1660, H[enry] 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

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   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.

   1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named The Gouernour, […], London: […] Tho. Bertheleti, folio 75, recto

   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.

   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

   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.

   1680, Henry More, Apocalypsis Apocalypseos; or The Revelation of Sᵗ John the Divine Unveiled. […], London: […] J. M. for J. Martyn, and W. Kettilby, […], pages 256–257

   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; […]

   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 ([…])

   We seriously ask and beg therefore, wether^([sic]) it may please our Representatives the Honᵇˡᵉ 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.”

   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

   Synonyms: annex