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Appendix

noun

(pl. E. appendixes, L. appendices)

Supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book.

A vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch. Synonyms: cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process.

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... (America for the Americans.) By Robert Blatchford, with American Appendix by A. M. Simons. Cloth, ...

— Socialism: Positive and Negative • Robert Rives La Monte

... is, with the exception of one document, devoted to the religious and ecclesiastical affairs of the Philippines—mainly in extracts from standard authorities on the religious history of the islands, combined in an appendix. Beginning with the laws which concern missionaries to the Philippines (1585-1640), we present accounts of the ecclesiastical machinery of that colony, the status of the various religious orders, the missions conducted ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 28 of 55) • Various

... give a foothold and foundation for tremendous fortifications of prejudice and tradition, in which hostilities and hatreds may gather. When I think of a Jew's nose, a Chinaman's eyes or a negro's colour I am reminded of that fatal little pit which nature has left in the vermiform appendix, a thing no use in itself and of no significance, but a gathering-place for mischief. The extremest case of race-feeling is the Jewish case, and even here, I am convinced, it is the Bible and the Talmud and the exertions of those inevitable professional champions ...

— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells

... respect for the privacy daily enforced upon me by the nature of my avocation here and the state of my health. This testimony, so long as I live, and so long as my descendants have any legal right in my books, I shall cause to be republished, as an appendix to every copy of those two books of mine in which I have referred to America. And this I will do and cause to be done, not in mere love and thankfulness, but because I regard it as an act of ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... entitled "Parson Drew thro' Pudsey," is the work of the late John Hartley; its proper' title is "T' First o' t' Sooar't," and it includes eight introductory stanzas which are now added as Appendix II. ...

— Yorkshire Dialect Poems • F.W. Moorman

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