Also 5–7 connexe. [a. F. connexe (:—L, type *co(n)nexa), and ad. L. co(n)nexus joining, connection, f. ppl. stem of co(n)nectĕre.]
† 1. A bond or tie. Obs. rare.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xiii. (1890), 47. Juno … lady, mastresse, and wardeyne, of the connexes or bondes aminicules.
† 2. A connected incident or property. Obs.
1540. Sc. Acts Jas. V. (1597), § 84. Advocationes and donationes of Kirkes, their annexes and connexes, and all their pertinents.
1548. Hall, Chron., 98. With all incidentz, circumstances, dependentes, or connexes.
1587. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1597), § 29. Togidder with all … partes, pendickles, annexes, connexes, out-settes, [etc.].
a. 1676. Hale, Anal. Com. Law (1739), 52. Under every of these Distinctions, the following Connexes fall in.
1814. [see ANNEX sb. 2].
† 3. A connex proposition. See CONNEX a. 2.
1628. T. Spencer, Logick, 299. This kinde of Connexe hath but three termes in it, viz. 1. Inheritance. 2. Promise. 3. Law.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 148/1. Dialecticks teach in their Elements whether a connex (a proposition which hath the conjunction if) be true or false.
4. Math. [= Ger. connex, Clebsch, Geometrie (1876), I. 924] A term applied to the aggregate of an infinite number of points and an infinite number of lines represented by an equation which is simultaneously homogeneous in point- and line-coordinates.
1874. Hirst, in Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., V. 63. According to the terminology employed by Clebsch … each point of one of our two planes, and its polar in any correlation of a system constitute an element of a connex of the class μ and order ν.
