appanage

American  

[ap-uh-nij] / ˈæp ə nɪdʒ /

Or apanage

noun

1. land or some other source of revenue assigned for the maintenance of a member of the family of a ruling house.

2. whatever belongs rightfully or appropriately to one's rank or station in life.

3. a natural or necessary accompaniment; adjunct.

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appanage British  

/ ˈæpənɪdʒ /

noun

1. land or other provision granted by a king for the support of a member of the royal family, esp a younger son

2. a natural or customary accompaniment or perquisite, as to a job or position

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Etymology

Origin of appanage

1595–1605; < Middle French, Old French apanage, apeinaige, equivalent to apan ( er ) to endow (a younger son or daughter) with a maintenance (< Medieval Latin appānāre; ap- ap- ¹ + -pānāre, verbal derivative of Latin pānis bread; compare Old Provençal apanar to nourish) + -age -age

Example Sentences

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appanage

Even the Papacy, the only stable power, had become the appanage of a Roman family.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

But that risk is really remote, since the great desk and chair are the natural appanage of the Master of the "Hundred"; it will not be usual for anyone else to trespass upon that prerogative.

From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen

Hitherto it has been almost the exclusive appanage of conquerors; but one preceding poet was universally called the Great Corneille, and henceforth we shall say the Great Victor Hugo.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith

He has an appanage, or territory, assigned to him to "eat," like other princes of the Empire.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various

For the internal regulation of the conscience it had erected the institution of auricular confession, which by this time had become almost the exclusive appanage of the priesthood.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea