appensions

Noun

appension (countable and uncountable, plural appensions)

1. (obsolete, uncountable) The act of appending or attaching.
   • 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 .1671, John Gregory, The Works of John Gregory, page 55
2. (countable) Something that was appended; an addendum.
   • 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.2020, Kathleen A. Bishop, Standing in the Shadow of the Master?
3. (historical) A healing or protective charm.
   • 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...2015, Brian P. Levack, The Witchcraft Sourcebook:, page 378