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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
annex . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
annexe .
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Examples
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Mark Anthony later decries Cleopatra's alliance with Caesar: "I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen,-- Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine; Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't A million more, now lost,--she, Eros, has Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory Unto an enemy's triumph."
Shakespeare on Games 2008
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Mark Anthony later decries Cleopatra's alliance with Caesar: "I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen,-- Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine; Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't A million more, now lost,--she, Eros, has Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory Unto an enemy's triumph."
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Their abstemious Way of living preserves their Health, to which is ordinarily annex'd long Life, and they fear not Death whose Lives have been so perfect.
Exilius 2008
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But Hume says the sentiment of morals comes to play the same role in promise-keeping that it does in the development of honesty with respect to property (T 3.2.5.12); so there is evidence he thinks the moral sentiment not only becomes “annex'd” to promise-keeping but further motivates it.
Hume's Moral Philosophy Cohon, Rachel 2004
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Wherein the Frauds in Play are detected, and the Laws of each Game annex'd, to prevent Disputes.
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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However, these Modes of _good Breeding_ were not to be abolished, as it was impossible to dispense with the _Respect_ annex'd to them, without some further Pretence than of their _Inconvenience_ only; which no Person could decently urge, or admit in his own behalf, when it was his Province to pay any Ceremonies to another; In this
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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I propos'd to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex'd to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully express'd the extent I gave to its meaning.
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Scotland, and also the List hereunto annex'd of the numbers of the disaffected Clans that Doctor Cameron and he had engaged in the
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878
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In vain have we annex'd Texas, California, Alaska, and reach north for Canada and south for Cuba.
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We have sent by Mr Estes Waggon one barrel Loaf Sugar as per Bill annex'd, and will send half a barrel brown, by Mr Chapmans Waggon --
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