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to add as a supplement, accessory, or ; subjoin:
to append a note to a letter.
to attach or suspend as a pendant.
to sign a document with; affix:
to append one’s signature to a will.
Contemporary Examples

Just append “/tweber/socialmedia” to your search terms when using Blekko.
Testing the New Google Killer Thomas E. Weber November 2, 2010

Random House lawyers were not so convinced and told him to append a complete list of citations at the back of the book.
Have We Given Up on Fiction? Tom Shone March 16, 2010

Historical Examples

We append below some of the more salient portions of the evidence.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, October 4, 1890 Various

It has only seemed feasible to append some comparisons with Yuki and Miwok beliefs.
Pomo Bear Doctors Samuel Alfred Barrett

To append a moral to a work of fiction is either useless or superfluous.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 2 (of 4) Thomas Babington Macaulay

It is my intention also, as we go on, to append notes here and there.
The Catholic World. Volume II; Numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. E. Rameur

The inspector is not in a position to append any explanations of importance to the last of the letters.
The Queen of Hearts Wilkie Collins

I append the sub–joined measurements which I took from this gentleman.
Ole Bull Sara C. Bull

I append, more for the sake of showing that I have attended to the whole than for any other object, a few most trivial criticisms.
More Letters of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin

I append a showing of what I use in collecting, according to circumstances.
Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting William T. Hornaday

verb (transitive)
to add as a supplement: to append a footnote
to attach; hang on
v.

late 14c., “to belong to as a possession or right,” from Old French apendre (13c.) belong, be dependent (on); attach (oneself) to; hang, hang up,” and directly from Latin appendere “to cause to hang (from something), weigh,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + pendere “hang” (see pendant).

Meaning “to hang on, attach as a pendant” is 1640s; that of “attach as an appendix” is recorded by 1843. OED says the original word was obsolete by c.1500, and these later transitive senses represent a reborrowing from Latin or French. Related: Appended; appending.