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▪ I. appendix, n.|əˈpɛndɪks|
Pl. -ices |-ɪsiːz| and -ixes.
[a. L. appendix. f. appendĕre: see append. A sing. appendice after Fr. appears in 17th c.]
That which is attached as if by being hung on; = appendage, but now of more restricted use.
1. a. Of things material: A subsidiary external adjunct, addition, or accompaniment; an additional possession, a dependency. Obs. in gen. sense exc. by transference from 2.
1592Greene Upstart Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 230 If it be his pleasure to haue his appendices primde, or his mouchaches fostred. 1645Howell Lett. i. 26 Normandy, once an Appendix of the Crown of England. 1665J. Spencer Prophecies 125 The Ark, the Shechinah, the heavenly fire, and the rest, were ceremonial appendices. 1710Shaftesbury Charact. vi. v. (1737) III. 379 Figures of Men..accidentally introduc'd, as Appendices, or Ornaments. 1880tr. Wurtz Atom. The. 150 The bodies added as appendices have become the heads of their respective families.
†b. transf. of persons; cf. appendant 2 b. Obs.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. iv. 104 To bid the Priest be readie to come against you come with your appendix. 1692E. Walker Epictetus (1737) xxiii, My Children..are but the Appendixes of me.
2. An addition subjoined to a document or book, having some contributory value in connexion with the subject-matter of the work, but not essential to its completeness.
1549Latimer 7 Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 46 The commentaries, contaynyng the solemnities of their religion wyth manye other appendixes. 1638Penit. Conf. xii. (1657) 317 Towards the end whereof is an Appendix or Post-script. 1711F. Fuller Med. Gymn. Pref., As I have related in the Appendix to this Treatise. 1880Athenæum 23 Oct. 567 Two important Appendixes. 1881Academy 18 June 457/2 His numerous appendices.
3. a. Biol. A small process or prolongation developed from the surface of any organ. spec., short for vermiform appendix (of the cæcum): see vermiform a. 3 a.
1615Crooke Body of Man 113 The appendixe of the Mesenterie..of the nature of a ligament. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus 526 The appendices or beards in the calicular leaves [of the rose]. 1863Oliver Less. Bot. (1873) 142 Viola odorata..two narrow dorsal appendices from the base of the connective of the two anterior anthers. 1886[see appendicitis]. 1902Scotsman 2 July 7/3 This operation, removal of the appendix. 1905Kelly & Hurdon Verm. App. 2 The first recorded case of disease of the appendix is the classical one of Mestivier, reported in 1759. 1905H. G. Wells Modern Utopia App. 377, I had seen the ancestral cæcum shrink to that disease nest, the appendix of to-day.
†b. The sucker of a plant or tree. Obs.
1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 30 Both these sorts [of elms] are rais'd of Appendices, or Suckers.
†4. Of things immaterial: A subsidiary addition, accompaniment, or consequence; an accessory. Obs.
1542Boorde Brev. (1870) 103 The Apendex to all the premisses that foloweth. 1578Timme Calvin on Gen. 360 His promise was an addition, or an appendix of that principal point. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. vi. (1651) 86 Idleness is an appendix to nobility. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriatr. 267 Therefore the will of a blessed Soul should be a burdensome appendice. 1699Boyer Fr. Dict. (1759) s.v., Who look upon Idleness as an Appendix of their Greatness.
▪ II. appendix, v. rare.|əˈpɛndɪks|
[f. prec. n.]
To add as an appendix. Hence appendixed ppl. a.
1755N. Magens Insurances I. 456 The appendix'd Piece marked Letter B. 1772Grose East Ind. I. 211 The catalogue appendixed by Mr. Fraser to his history of Nadir Shah. |