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To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson.

The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.

One who favors annexation.

One who annexes.

Annexation. [R.] Shak.

An annexationist. [R.]

The act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage. [R.] Shak.

Capable of being annihilated.

or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon.

destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

Serving to annihilate; destructive.

One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator.

Annihilative.

Annually. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

Anniversary. [Obs.] Dryden.

In the year of the Christian era; as, a. d. 1887.

Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S. Cussans.

To name. [R.]