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noun

Appendix n. (pl. E. appendixes, L. appendices)

Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. "Normandy became an appendix to England."

Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.

(Anatomy) The vermiform appendix.

Synonyms: See Supplement.

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Etymology of 'Appendix'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Appendix" Quotes from Famous Books

... account, while a full list of the grand prizes, medals of honor and gold medals also follows the chapter. With the artists thus named are noted the rooms where the works of each may be found. The Appendix offers a practical aid to the study of the "Exposition Art" in the list there given of the mural paintings and sculptures which form the notable decorations of palaces and gardens. With these are cross-references to the pages in the text where they ...

— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... treatises leveled against atheism, and designed to prove that God produced the world from naught, and at the age of fifty gave to the world his great work, Moreh Nebuchim ("Guide of the Perplexed"), to which Rabbi Judah Charizi added an appendix. ...

— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various

... and Health and Charities. There is a Supreme Court, and there are the usual minor courts. The Constitution also makes provision for the organization and the powers of the Provincial and Municipal Governments. To the Constitution, the Platt Amendment is attached as an appendix, by treaty arrangement. As far as governmental system is concerned, Cuba is fairly well equipped; a possible source of danger is its over-equipment. Its laws permit, rather than require, an overburden of officials, high and low. But Cuba's governmental ...

— Cuba, Old and New • Albert Gardner Robinson

... "Defence" greedily, and not one in a thousand of them was likely to see the "Prospective Review," In the second edition of the "Defence" the writer undertakes to defend himself against my advocate, in on Appendix of 19 closely printed pages, the "Defence" itself being 218. The "Eclipse," in its 9th edition of small print, is 393 pages. And how does he set about his reply? By trying to identify the third writer ...

— Phases of Faith - Passages from the History of My Creed • Francis William Newman

... the surgeon-general's library a rare book: Moricheau Beaupre, A Treatise on the Effects and Properties of Cold, with a Sketch, Historical and Medical, of the Russian Campaign. Translated by John Clendining, with appendix, xviii, 375 pp. 8vo., Edinburgh, Maclachnan ...

— Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 • Achilles Rose

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