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annex (s.xiiiex)
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annex (s.xiiiex)

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(pl. annexis)  
  FEW:  annexus 24,607b Gdf:  annexe 1,297a GdfC:  annexe 8,126a TL: annexe 1,398 DEAF:  annex  DMF:  annexe  TLF:  annexe  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  annectere (annexus) 89a / annexus 2 89b

In many cases indistinguishable from annexé, the past participle form of annexer.

a.

(of documents, etc.) attached, appended (to): 
( c.1368 )  un commission dont la copie a cest bille est annexe (l. annexé?)  Northumb 253
( s.xiv-xv )  les pagentz suisditz soient jueez en les lieux quelles furent limitez & assignez […] les quelles lieux sount annexis a ceste bille en une cedulle  YMB i 51
♦(of a condition, stipulation) attached (to): 
( c.1433 )  l’un terre soit doné ové un feme in liberum maritagium leqel ad un condicion annexe (l. annexé?), scilicet […]  Readings i App. X 42
♦lawattached to, inherent in: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  feauté qe est annex a chescun homage  Mir Just 117
♦lawattached to, dependent on: 
( 1317 )  a quel chapel la eglise de L. est annex  YBB Ed II xxii 260
♦lawattached to, forming part of: 
( 1297 )  les queus biens ne seient mie annex a leur eglises  Parl Writs 54
( 1338 )  abatre des arbres q’est si annex al soil ne puit estre dit felonie mesqe estrange l’ust fait  YBB 11-12 Ed III 641
( 1427 )  l’eir averoit lez bleez ové le terre come chose annexe (l. annexé?) a le terre  Readings App. VIII 513
♦belonging to: 
( 1321 )  chatex emblez serrunt plus tout annex a verei seinurs qe as estraunges  YBB Ed II xxvi 85

See also:

annexer 
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