Appension

Quick meaning: Appension is a noun meaning (countable) Something that was appended; an addendum.

Meaning

(countable) Something that was appended; an addendum.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, uncountable) The act of appending or attaching.
2. (historical) A healing or protective charm.

Example Sentences

Over this Tohu or Nothing it was, that he stretched the North or Firmament, and then hang'd the Earth upon the same Nothing . But of this manner of appension somewhat more is to be said .

Looke quhat it is be nature; that same thing is it, and na farther, gif it be not hangin to some evident; it is only the appension to the evident that makes men to count it ane seal; therefore it is nathing esteemed but being hung to the evident.

Yet Lydgate clearly reworks his ballade in other ways, for example the inclusion of Chaucer's 'Greseylde' and 'Rosamounde', which reaffirms the poetic genealogy cited by Chaucer himself at the close of the Troilus and by extension ratifies Lydgate's appension to it.

And as it is thus in general, so in many particulars, as especially in being ignorant of many natural agents that do work at a great distance, and very occultly, both to help, and to hurt, as in the wapon salve, the sympathetic powder, the curing of diseases by mumial applications, but amulets, appensions, and transplantions, which all have been, and commonly are ascribed unto Satan, when they are truly wrought by natural operations.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include appendency, appendication, appertinance, appurtenaunt, appurtenaunce, appendice.

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