Obs. Also 6 conex, 7 connexe. [ad. L. connex-us (in classical period cōnexus), pa. pple. of co(n)nectĕre: see CONNECT.]
1. Connected.
1653. H. More, Conject. Cabbal. (1713), 185. It is also very closely connex with Piety and Religion.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 473. A connexe series of things.
c. 1680. in H. More, Paralip. Prophet. (1685), 337. The Rind and Pulp must … be connex.
2. Logic. Of propositions (or ‘axioms’) and reasoning: Conditional; = CONNEXIVE 1.
1589. Marprel. Epit., B iij b. M. Deane … verye stoutly prooueth his no … by a connex axiome to beginne withall.
1641. Symonds, Serm. bef. Ho. Com., B ij b. A connex proposition whereof the denial of one part is the denial of the whole.
a. 1699. Stillingfl., Serm., III. xii. (R.). The connex way of reasoning is, saith Simplicius, when two things are joined together as antecedent and consequent.
