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▪ I. † aˈppend, v.1 Obs.
Also 4 apend, apent, 5 appent. Aphetic 4–5 pend, pent.
[a. OFr. apendre (3rd sing. il apent, whence ME. variant apent), to depend on, belong to, pertain:—L. appendĕre (in cl. L. only trans.) for appendēre, f. ap- = ad- to + pendēre to hang (intr.). Obsolete before 1500, and not connected (in Eng.) with append v.2]
intr. To belong to as a possession, natural accompaniment, or right; to pertain; to relate, to refer; to be suited or proper to. Obs.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1270 Alle þe apparement þat pented to þe kyrke. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 623 Quy þe pentangel apendeȝ to þat prynce noble. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋970 Holy orisoun..appendith specially to penitence. a1400Chester Pl. (1847) 131 Oure Lorde will us lere whereto it [the star in the East] will apente. Ibid. 189 Yf you wiste wherto it would apente. c1400Towneley Myst. 239 That [harnes] appentys unto me. 1470Harding Chron. xxvii, His wife..With all aray that to the werre apent [v.r. her wer apent]. Ibid. lvii, All bokes or ornamentes, Bellys, relyquys, that to [the churche] appendes.
▪ II. append, v.2|əˈpɛnd|
[a. (perh. through mod.Fr. append-re) L. append-ĕre to hang to. In form the same word as prec., re-adopted from L. or Fr. in the transitive sense of appendĕre, after the prec. vb. had been long obsolete.]
1. To hang on, to attach as a pendant.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v, If amulets do work by emanations from their bodies upon those parts wherunto they are appended. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, A Conquering Hero, to whom Fate has malignantly appended a tin-kettle of Ambition.
2. To attach, join on, annex, as an accessory either material or attributive.
1779–81Johnson L.P. Shenstone Wks. IV. 214 Hales-Owen..in the division of the kingdom, was appended..to a distant county. 1835J. Harris Gt. Teacher (1837) 382 One thing to which everything else desirable is appended. 1863Kemble Resid. Georgia 34 The purposes for which hands and arms were appended to our bodies.
3. To add in writing by way of supplement or appendix.
1843Mill Logic ii. iii. §8 Some additional remarks..are appended. 1879Farrar Paul I. Pref. 9 To append notes to the more difficult expressions. |