Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-NECTION, n. [L. connexio; It. connessione. See Connect.]

1. The act of joining or state of being joined; a state of being knit or fastened together; union by junction, by an intervening substance or medium, by dependence or relation, or by order in a series; a word of very general import. There is a connection of links in a chain; a connection between all parts of the human body; a connection between virtue and happiness, and between this life and the future; a connection between parent and child, master and servant, husband and wife; between motives and actions, and between actions and their consequences. In short, the word is applicable to almost every thing that has a dependence on or relation to another thing.
2. A relation by blood or marriage.
3. An association, or united body; as, the Methodist connection.