[a. (perh. through mod. Fr. append-re) L. append-ĕre to hang to. In form the same word as prec., re-adopted from L. or Fr. in the transitive sense of appendĕre, after the prec. vb. had been long obsolete.]
1. To hang on, to attach as a pendant.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. v. If amulets do work by emanations from their bodies upon those parts wherunto they are appended.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. iii. A Conquering Hero, to whom Fate has malignantly appended a tin-kettle of Ambition.
2. To attach, join on, annex, as an accessory either material or attributive.
1779–81. Johnson, L. P., Shenstone, Wks. IV. 214. Hales-Owen … in the division of the kingdom, was appended … to a distant county.
1835. J. Harris, Gt. Teacher (1837), 382. One thing to which everything else desirable is appended.
1863. Kemble, Resid. Georgia, 34. The purposes for which hands and arms were appended to our bodies.
3. To add in writing by way of supplement or appendix.
1843. Mill, Logic, II. iii. § 8. Some additional remarks … are appended.
1879. Farrar, Paul, I. Pref. 9. To append notes to the more difficult expressions.
