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a province to bis kingdom. To unite a pofleriori ; annexion 
always pre-fuppoling fomething : thus we may fay, Punifh- 
ment is annexed to guilt, but not guilt to punifhment: 
Nations will decline lo low 
From virtue, which is reafon, that no wrong, 
• But juftice, and fome fatal curie annex'd, 
Deprives them of their outward liberty. Milton. 
He cannot but love virtue wherever it is, and annex hap- 
pinefs always to the exercife of it. Atterbury. —The tem¬ 
poral reward is annexed to the bare performance of the 
action, but the eternal to obedience. Rogers. 
Annex, f. The thing annexed; additament.—Failing 
in his firll attempt to be but like the higheft in heaven, he 
hath obtained of men to be the fame on earth, and hath 
accordingly alfumed the annexes of divinity. Brozvn. 
ANNEXA'T[ON, f. Conjunction; addition. Union; 
aft or practice of adding or uniting.—If we can return to 
that charity and peaceable-mindednefs, which Chrilt fo 
vehemently recommends to us, we have his own promile, 
that the whole body will be full of light, (Matt, vi.) that 
all other Chriftian virtues will, by way of concomitance 
or annexation, attend them. Hammond. 
Annexation, in law, a termuled to imply the uniting 
of lands or rents to the crown. 
ANNEX'ION, f. The aft of annexing; addition.—It 
is necelTary to engage the fears of men, by the annexion of 
fuch penalties as will overbalance temporal pleafure. Rogers. 
ANNEX'MENT,y. The aft of annexing. The thing 
annexed. 
ANNI'HILABLE, adj. [from annihilate.'] That which 
may be reduced to nothing; that which may be put out of 
exiftence. 
To ANNIHILATE, v. a. lad and nihilum, Lat.] To 
reduce to nothing; to put out of exiftence.—It is impof- 
fible for any body to be utterly annihilated ; but that, as it 
was the work of the omnipotency of God to make fome- 
what of nothing, fo it requireth the like omnipotency to 
turn fomewhat into nothing. Bacon. To deftroy, foas to 
make the thing otherwife than it was. To annul; to de- 
ltroy the agency of any thing. 
ANNIHILATION,/. The aft of reducing to nothing. 
The date of being reduced to nothing: 
That knowledge, which as fpirits we obtain. 
Is to be valued in the midlt of pain: 
Annihilation were to lofe heav’n more: 
We are not quite exil’d where thought can foar. Drydcn. 
Chriftians, Heathens, Jews, divines, philofophers, &c. 
have their peculiar fyftems concerning annihilation; and 
we find great difputes among them about the reality, the 
poflibiliiy, the means, meafures, prevention, ends, See. of 
annihilation. The firft notions of the production of a 
thing from, or reduftion of it to, nothing, Dr. Burnet 
lliews, arole from the Chriftian theology; the words ere - 
ation and annihilation, in the fenfe now given to them, ha¬ 
ving been equally unknown to the Hebrews, the Greeks, 
and the Latins. The ancient philofophers in effeft denied 
all annihilation as well as creation, refolving all the chan¬ 
ges in the world into new modifications, without fuppofmg 
the production of any thing new, or deftruftion of the old. 
By daily experience, they faw compounds diftblved; and 
that in their diftblution nothing perifhed but their union or 
conneftion of parts: when in death the body and foul 
were feparated, the man they held was gone, but that the 
fpirit remained in its original the great foul of the world, 
and the body in its earth from whence it came ; thefe were 
again wrought by nature into new compofitions, and en- 
terednew ftatesof beingwhichhad no relationto the former. 
The Socinians, andother Chriftian writers, (hocked with 
the horrible profpeft of eternal torments, have taken re¬ 
fuge in the fyftem of annihilation. This fyllem feems 
countenanced by Scripture; for that the words death, de- 
JlruElion, and perijhing, whereby the punifhment of the 
wicked is mod frequently exprelled in Scripture, do moll 
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properly import annihilation and an utter end of .being. 
To this Tillotfon anfwers, that thefe words, as well as 
thofe correfponding to them in other languages, are often 
ufed, both in Scripture and other writings, to fignify a 
ftate of great mifery and fuffering, without the utter ex¬ 
tinction of the miferwble. Thus. God is often faid ia 
Scripture to bring deflruElion on a nation, when he fends 
judgments upon them, but without exterminating or ma¬ 
king an end of them. So, in other languages, it is fre¬ 
quent, by perifhing, to exprefs a perfon’s being made mi- 
ferable; as in that known pad’age in Tiberius’s letter to 
the Roman fenate : ha me dii ,. dcceque onmes, pejus perdant , 
quam hodic perire mefentio. As to the word death, a ftate 
of mifery which is as bad or worfe than death may pro¬ 
perly enough be called by that name; and thus the pu- 
nifhment of wicked men after the day of judgment is in 
the book of Revelations frequently called th zjecond death. 
It has been much difputed among divines, whether, at 
the confummation of all things, this earth is to be anni¬ 
hilated, or only purified, and fitted for the habitation of 
fome new order of beings. Gerard in his Common Places, 
and Hakewil in his Apology, contend earneftly for a total 
abolition or annihilation. Ray, Calmet, and others, think 
the fyftem of renovation or reftitution more probable, and 
more confonant to Scripture, reafon, and antiquity. The 
fathers w ho have treated on the queftion are divided ; fome 
holding that the univerfe (hall not be annihilated, but only 
its external face changed; others afterting, that the fub- 
ftance of it (hall be deftroyed. 
AN'NI NUBBLES, in. law, denotes the marriageable 
age of a woman, viz. after (he has arrived at twelve. 
ANNIVER'SARY,A [ anniverfarius , Lat.} A day ce¬ 
lebrated as it returns in the courfe of the year. The aft 
of celebration, or performance, in honour of the anniver- 
fary day.—For encouragement to follow the example of 
martyrs, the primitive Chriftians met at the places of their 
martyrdom, to praife God for them, and to obferve the 
anniverfary of their fufferings. Stilling fleet.- —A nniverfar-y 
is an office in the Romilh church, celebrated now only once 
a year, but which ought to be faid daily through, the year, 
for the foul of the deceafed. Ayliffc . 
Anniversary, adj. \_annhjerflarius, Lat.] Returning 
with the revolution of the year; annual; yearly.—The 
heaven whirled about with admirable celerity, mod con- 
Ilantly finifhing its anniverfary viflicitudes. Ray. 
ANNOBON', a final! illand of Africa, on the coaft of 
Loango, belonging to the Portuguefe. It lies in lat. i. 50. 
S. Ion. 5. 10. E. and receives its name from being difeo- 
vered on New-year’s Day. According to Pyrard, it is 
about fix French leagues in compafs. Here are two high 
mountains, the tops of which being continually covered 
with clouds, oceafion frequent rains. On the fouth-eaft of 
the ifland are two rocks; one of which is low, and upon 
a level with the furface of the fea ; the other higher and 
larger, but both dangerous in the night to (hipping; but 
between them the channel is deep and clear. Thefe rocks 
are inhabited by vaft numbers of birds, fo tame, that the 
failors frequently catch them with their hands. On the 
fame fide of the illand is a convenient watering-place at 
the foot of a rivulet, which tumbles from the mountains 
down to a valley covered with orange and citron trees, &c. 
affording a pleafant and refre.'hing (hade; but the road on 
the north-weft fide is difficult and dangerous, though mod 
frequented by (hips who have no intention of touching 
upon the continent. In either place it is difficult to take 
in a fufficient quantity of water, on account of the violent 
breakings of the fea, and a done entrenchment erefted by 
the negroes, from which they annoy all ftrangers that at¬ 
tempt to land. The true road for dripping lies on the 
north-eaft fide, where they may anchor in (even, ten, thir¬ 
teen, or fixteen, fathoms, on a fine fand clofe to the land, 
oppofite to the village where the negroes have thrown up 
their entrenchments. The climate is wholefome, and the 
air clear and ferene for the greateft part of the year. Every 
part of the ifland is watered by pleafant brooks, and. frefh- 
watesf 
