Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to an appendix, specifically to the vermiform appendix.
  • Of the nature of an appendix.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or like an appendix.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an appendix or appendices.
  • adjective rare, biology, specifically Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the vermiform appendix.

Etymologies

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Latin appendic- (stem of appendix) + English -al

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Examples

  • It is not a dramatic poem in the sense that “Pippa Passes” is, for its ten Books (the first and twelfth are respectively introductory and appendical) are monologues.

    Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

  • It is not a dramatic poem in the sense that "Pippa Passes" is, for its ten Books (the first and twelfth are respectively introductory and appendical) are monologues.

    Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880

  • Readers interested in the known facts concerning the "master-mind, the thinker, the explorer, the creator," the forerunner of Mesmer and even of Darwin and Wallace, who began life with the sounding appellation "Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus ab Hohenheim," should consult Browning's own learned appendical note, and Mr. Berdoe's interesting essay in the Browning Society Papers,

    Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880

  • Readers interested in the known facts concerning the “master-mind, the thinker, the explorer, the creator,” the forerunner of Mesmer and even of Darwin and Wallace, who began life with the sounding appellation “Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus ab Hohenheim,” should consult Browning's own learned appendical note, and Mr. Berdoe's interesting essay in the Browning Society Papers, No. xlix.]

    Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

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