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Definition of annex:

  • (noun) an addition that extends a main building
  • (verb) take (territory) as if by conquest; "Hitler annexed Lithuania"
  • (verb) attach to

Sentence Examples:

We must likewise remember the position of Paul, that all petitions, to which thanksgiving is not annexed, are irregular and faulty.

Austria annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina unilaterally - but Russia was still prevented from crossing into the warm waters, its ambition and obsession.

Most of them resigned their liberties into the hands of oligarchies, and others allowed themselves to be annexed by ambitious princes.

This can be most conveniently done by displaying these, in descending order, in a tabular form, which I accordingly annex below.

The annexed suggestive example of this treatment, of which many others might be adduced, is from a sarcophagus in the Lateran.

Metaphysical truth, which is nothing but the real existence of things, conformable to the ideas to which we have annexed their names.

Certificate is granted him for obtaining letter of administration on the said decedent's estate with his will aforesaid annexed in due form.

While the struggle began with the mere hope of annexing cities in the valley, it expanded to include outlying lands as well.

The above abuse was quite distinct from the practice of annexing to the revenues of the crown, during a vacancy, the temporalities.

Between its star-shaped annexes, other domes covered landscaped gardens and noxious pools which in the drawing looked lovely and enticing.

Of the form of words to which ideas of peculiar sanctity are annexed by the inhabitants, I could never obtain a satisfactory explanation.

By his order, inquisitors were sent into all the provinces annexed to the royal dominion since the accession of Philip Augustus.

Thus further, if nothing is stipulated regarding conquered territory, it remains in the hands of the possessor, who may annex it.

To appear as an emissary of the Jesuits would be dangerous; that body being well known for their skill in annexing property.

Malt houses intended to be annexed to breweries, should not be on a less scale than sixty feet long, by twenty-five feet wide.

Brendon intended that the handsome Paxton man should be permanently annexed to the blonde beauty, who entirely concurred in the idea.

He who confesses a crime and denounces its atrocity, not only sanctions but inflicts the punishment which is annexed to it.

In 1820, finding these provisions ineffectual, they declared the slave trade piracy, and annexed to it the extreme penalty of death.

From what has been said before, it is easy to conceive what opinion ought to be entertained of a burdensome condition annexed to a promise.

He who confesses a crime and denounces its atrocity, not only sanctions but inflicts the punishment which is annexed to it.

This empty abdomen with its thoracic annex forms an enormous resonator, such as no other performer in our countryside can boast of.

I applied for permission to annex that boy; he was indeed a treasure, and the joy in the peacock's feathers never palled.

The annexed enlarged figure of a bunch of wild oat seeds will sufficiently illustrate the changes necessary to produce the cultivated form.

A companion was precisely that which above all things his heart coveted; only he didn't know how to set about annexing one.

The best we could get was a bed in a forbidding looking one-story annex, walled with undressed pine and roofed with tarpaulin.

When it is deemed requisite to blast a portion of rock, the borer and hammer are used much as shown in the annexed illustration.

She had annexed the vast domain of Canada, and the sentiment of its seventy thousand French inhabitants was her first concern.

This is an idea foreign to the proposition per se, yet capable of being annexed or implicated with it under some accidental circumstances.

Take, for example, the annexed brief but comprehensive glance at the four seasons: Spring laughing comes to bless the verdant land.

The human race is endowed with certainty as a quality annexed to life, a spontaneous result of the development of the soul's faculties.

As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.

A comparison of the tenor of the annexed documents with that of my report, will convince you that I have studiously avoided overstatements.

The Italians had been looking longingly at this district for some time, intending to organize an expedition and forcibly annex it to their kingdom.

And therefore liberality is laid down by some to be a part of justice as a virtue annexed to justice as an accessory to a principal

The annexed list of rations will show that the quantity obtained on starting would not admit of my issuing a larger supply.

And next she is the object of contention between two neighboring despots, the one endeavoring to hold, the other to annex her.

Each party then by its agents prepares and presents its case in a narrative or argumentative form, annexing thereto all relevant documents.

The annexed block shews a small archangel which surmounts the font canopy, and is of the same character as the chapel angels.

The charm that rivets their affections is not the importance or reputation annexed to the new pursuit, but its novelty or difficulty.

The action certainly merits every commemoration, and the annexed plate is taken from a drawing representing the most interesting period of it.

All that belonged to other people he annexed without a scruple or a second thought, quite naturally, as though it were already his own.

Confiscation of private property and possessions in the annexed Eastern territories and in the Government General was subject to the same regulations.

A sudden change in the trend of the reaches brought in sight the strange appearance of the country represented in the woodcut annexed.

I can never forget that harmonious combination of gray and white, as I have annexed copious samples of it to most of my meager wardrobe.

This certificate, drawn up by the professional competitors and enemies of the deceased, made no mention of the paper annexed to the will.

It would have been easily disposed of if the only rights which could be annexed to land were easements, such as a right of way.

Be pleased to send it to the persons whom it concerns, and to recommend to them to annex to it French copies of their Memorial.

Except in the annexed territories the native states are maintained under French supervision, and native laws and customs, as far as possible, retained.

Annexed are representations of some remarkably fine rings (French) dating from the close of the fourteenth century or the commencement of the fifteenth.

To this report he annexed the draft of a School Bill, extending to twenty-two pages, with a variety of forms and instructions appended.

The annexed Engravings are an interesting page in the early history of our country, and deserve all the space we have appropriated to them.

It has been mentioned above, that words of covenant may annex an easement to land, and that words of grant may import a covenant.

They seemed to incarnate something of the might and power of the personality that shaped Rhodesia, and made of it an annex of Empire.

If he called himself a Deputy Commissioner he was a rank impostor, and had no more authority to annex this island than you have.

After firing me with a kingly ambition to capture and annex a distant planet, why do you proceed to throw discouragement in my way?

This result it is the business of the lawgiver to accomplish by annexing to each offense the degree of punishment calculated to repress it.

Finding that Major Bethune was bound by the same boat, he annexed him to his "progress," with a condescension peculiarly his own.

We were given rooms in the new annex, a frame-and-shingle building, and were delighted to find that our windows opened upon the moonlit lake.

Behind, in the form of an annex, was the college of dramatic art with its own little theater, lecture rooms, and dormitory.

In the Queries annexed to the Optics, Newton further suggests an opinion, that the rays of light are repelled by bodies without immediate contact.

The number of the Magazine with which your subscription expires is indicated by the number annexed to the address on the printed label.

Must he not, if his fatherland is completely conquered and annexed by the enemy, reconcile himself to becoming a subject of the enemy?

Annexed to this letter I have the honor of transmitting to your Lordship some papers and documents which I have received from the American Ministers.

In securing the white paper over the cyanide, the writer has resorted to a simple method which is explained in the annexed diagram.

The mode of platting the hair, and then fastening it with a pin or needle, is shown in the annexed figure of a female head.

That you may remember these auxiliaries and avoid giving them new opportunities of betraying your rights, we annex a list of their dishonored names.

The great fiefs which, three hundred years before, had been, in all but name, independent principalities, had been annexed to the crown.

Except for buildings annexed from time to time, so plain that they are no disfigurement, the College stands as it stood three centuries ago.

Probably the blacksmith, the wheelwright, and the builder would occupy these outlying places, with an "annex" of farming to supplement their trades.

When the stronger victor came, the spoil was annexed, and the ancient pride of defense was applied by a more dexterous hand.

Formerly the history of religion was written, not to recount it, but in order to prove it: religious history was an annex of theology.

You may make any examinations in the cases of justice, premises, and all the other things pertaining to and annexed to the said offices.

The cup of blessing, and this is applied to those several cups used in their solemn Feasts, because of those blessings or thanksgiving annexed.

When the annexed Sketch was taken he was eighty-three years of age, but had all the appearance of a hale, vigorous man of sixty.

Nurses gathered in groups in the nurses' annex and talked about the closing of the incurable ward and the going of Margaret MacLean.

He corroborated the conviction of those who from the first had asserted that, in annexing Texas, the United States had annexed a war.

I promptly annexed it, glad to save my own horse, and I congratulated myself on having made a most useful addition to my small stud.

Denis the great monarch's heart, which he had annexed from a casket at the time the royal tombs were demolished by the mob.

The apparatus, of which a representation is given in the annexed woodcut, was very complicated, but the essential parts may be readily understood.

By reference to the rude maps annexed, which mark the several contingents by figures, the nature of this contrivance will be clearly seen.

It sorely puzzled the "parish," which had disposed of Jonathan, how to dispose of Jonathan's effects, but it promptly annexed the vermilion chairs.

The annexed is a drawing copied from nature; it is alluded to a few pages further on: its pattern is frequently to be met with.

The victorious Russians thinking that all of Prussia was to be annexed to their dominions, began to treat the Prussians tenderly and as countrymen.

The room to the north of the schoolroom was the annex to the Judge's library, and it held his books bequeathed to the minister.

The rope to be hove on is passed round the nave of the wheel below the line of the spokes, as shown in the annexed illustration.

Thirdly, the primary images may be considered as principal images, while the secondary can be, as it were, annexed to these as accessory images.

In annexing to this despatch the Memorial which he delivered to me, I shall add what I have reason to think of importance in his conference.

The office, it appeared, was built in the form of an annex to one of the storehouses, which stood detached from all other buildings.

Annexed to this letter is a short specimen of the work, thrown together in a vague and desultory manner, not even adhering to alphabetical concatenation.

It is not the persecution, but the catastrophe which is annexed to it, that makes the difference between the tyrant and the sufferer!

Then there is the hyphen marriage, more common still, in which the woman retains her own name, but condescends to annex the man's.

And he laughed as he refilled his pipe, blessing the old priest for his consideration in annexing naught but his rifle and revolver.

Pictures of their own distress, or of that of their neighbors, were exhibited in all the hues which imagination can annex to pestilence and poverty.

He stayed until noon the next day, this time sleeping in the annex, which Dinky-Dunk and I have papered, so that it looks quite presentable.

To counterbalance the move to suburbs and nearby rural areas, urban local units of government seek to annex surrounding land from counties or nearby cities.

It consists of a series of bold woodcuts, which form its characteristic feature, and of metrical explanations, written by Brandt, and annexed to each cut.

The Blank Building people had been constructing an addition to their immense stack of offices; we stood in the freshly completed and wholly unoccupied annex.

"I guess your client, old Charley Whitney, won't miss the chance to intervene in the suit and annex the whole business, in the scrimmage."

Bill had evidently made a miscalculation, but he suggested that we remedy the error by building an annex for our kitchen utensils and supplies.

Hastings from a situation of the highest rank and authority, with an income of suitable magnitude, to one of comparative insignificance, with a small salary annexed.