[a. F. connexité, med.L. connexitās = connexio (Du Cange), f. F. connexe, L. co(n)nexus, CONNEX a.: see -ITY.]

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  1.  The quality of being connected; connectedness.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, II. xi. (1632), 237. The Peripatetikes doe also disavow this connexitie and indissoluble knitting together [of the virtues].

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1708.  Motteux, Rabelais (1737), V. 235. The superficial connexity of our Heels.

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1886.  Athenæum, 31 July, 140/1. The universal connexity of existence is as clear to him as to Dionysius Areopagitus.

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  † 2.  concr. A thing or matter connected. Obs.

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1645.  Treaty w. Spain, in C. King, Brit. Merch., III. 150. I grant you the most full and complete Power and most ample Commission, as by Law is required and necessary, with their Incidencies, Dependencies, Annexities and Connexities.

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