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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.

To annex with something else.

To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of. State Trials (1608).

To annex again or anew; to reunite. "To reannex that duchy." Bacon.

Act of reannexing.

v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.

To add or annex; to join. Leland.

Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. [R.] Earle.

the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use. Administration with the will annexed, administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.

Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. Brougham.

dental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.

Connecting; annexing. Owen.