APPENDIXES

Noun

appendixes

plural of appendix

Usage notes

See appendix ยง Usage notes.

Source: Wiktionary


APPENDIX

Ap*pen"dix, n.; pl. E. Appendixes, L. Appendices(#). Etym: [L. appendix, -dicis, fr. appendere. See Append.]

1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale.

2. 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.

Syn.

– See Supplement.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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