connexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: connexions
form: connex.
Etymology: From Middle English connexioun, from Latin connexiō (“a conclusion, binding together”), from connectō.
Senses: examples: text: There are undoubtedly facts, which, may come to their knowledge by means of their connexion with the ſecretary of ſtate, reſpecting which they cannot anſwer.
ref: 1803 February 24, John Marshall, quotee, “Marbury v. Madiſon”, in U.S. Reports, volume 5, Washington, D.C.: William Cranch, pages 141–142:
text: It is now time for the opposition to the Annexation of Texas to cease, all further agitation of the waters of bitterness and strife, at least in connexion with this question,–even though it may perhaps be required of us as a necessary condition of the freedom of our institutions, that we must live on for ever in a state of unpausing struggle and excitement upon some subject of party division or other.
ref: 1845 July and August, John O’Sullivan, “Annexation”, in United States Magazine and Democratic Review, volume 17, number 1, page 1:
text: I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons; because her rank and connexions suited him; […]
ref: 1848, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography:
text: And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories, tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow–a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
text: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Persuading the widow that my connexion with her husband's 'technical matters' was sufficient to entitle me to his manuscript, I bore the document away and […]
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
text: It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: In this connexion, it is worth remembering that we are never told how the tribute was collected within the tributary state.
ref: 1978, Moses I. Finley, “The fifth-century Athenian empire: A balance sheet”, in Peter D. A. Garnsey, C. R. Whittaker, editors, Imperialism in the Ancient World: The Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History, Cambridge University Press (reprinted 2006), →ISBN, page 125:
ref: 1984 November 20, “Rugby Union: The Jaguars Make A Move To End Their Isolation Argentina turns to FIRA and the French connexion is set to benefit”, in The Times, page 21:
glosses: Alternative spelling of connection.
topics: lifestyle
religion
qualifier: Methodism
glosses: A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences (US spelling: connection).
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The inter-relationship of prayer groups or religious societies under the oversight of an itinerant preacher who is assisted by the local preachers attached to each society.
Derived terms: connexional
disconnexion
interconnexion
New Connexion
reconnexion