I. To hang something upon something, to suspend on (eccl. Lat.): “(Deus) appendit terram super nihilum,” hangeth the earth on nothing, Vulg. Job, 26, 7.—
II. Commonly to weigh something to one, to weigh (cf. pendo)
A. Lit.: “si tibi optimā fide sua omnia concessit, adnumeravit, appendit,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 144: “quodcumque trades, numera et appende,” Vulg. Eccli. 42, 7: “aurum alicui,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56: “appendit pecuniam,” Vulg. Gen. 23, 16: “ut appendantur, non numerentur pecuniae,” Cic. Phil. 2, 38: “nondum omni auro appenso,” Liv. 5, 49; so Col. 12, 3, 9: “talentum auri appendebat,” Vulg. Exod. 37, 24: “appensum est argentum,” ib. 1 Esdr 8, 33: “qui cenis Caesaris sex milia numero murenarum mutua adpendit,” Plin. 9, 55, 81, § 171 Jan; Dig. 23, 3, 34.—*
B. Trop., to weigh, to consider: non verba me adnumerare lectori putavi oportere, sed tamquam appendere, to have regard not to their number, but to their weight or force, Cic. Opt. Gen. 5: “appendit corda Dominus,” Vulg. Prov. 21, 2.
