α. 1600s annexible.
β. 1600s– annexable.
annexableadj.
/əˈnɛksəbl/, /aˈnɛksəbl/, /ˈanɛksəbl/, U.S. /æˈnɛksəb(ə)l/, /əˈnɛksəb(ə)l/, /ˈæˌnɛksəb(ə)l/ That may be annexed (in various senses of annex v.); (now chiefly) that may be added to a territory, property, etc., by appropriation. Frequently in predicative use, with to.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii Which may be Knit, Nexible, Annexible.
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 29 Adjectitious syllabicals annexible to Nouns.
a1656 E. Wingate Maximes of Reason (1658) cviii. 413 Regularly a Warranty is onely annexable to free-holds or inheritances corporeal.
1702 H. Lee Anti-scepticism ii. xxvii. 128 In a Dream a man thinks he did a good or an ill Action, which he never did: and therefore Consciousness is annexable to other Agents than the real one.
1773 London Mag. Aug. 399/2 To make a parish legally annexable.
1852 J. C. Symons School Econ. iii. i. 130 Spade husbandry is generally admitted to be the best..sort of industrial labour which is applicable to the case, and annexable to schools.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 384 A Condition was not annexable to all dispositions.
1900 Social-Democrat Feb. 47 The vulgar and self-assertive imperialism that is unhappy so long as any annexable territory on the earth's surface remains unannexed.
1969 D. Cairns tr. E. G. A. Husserl Formal & Transcendental Logic i. iv. 123 Anticipative presumptions whose possible fulfilment (in further syntactically annexable evidences) would decide whether the ostensibly true is the definitively true.
2009 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 19 Apr. 1 It [sc. a road] would take traffic out of the center of town and..it would empty into property that is annexable to Carpentersville.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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