appendant
Americanadjective
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attached or suspended; annexed.
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associated as an accompaniment or consequence.
the salary appendant to a position.
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Law. pertaining to a legal appendant.
noun
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a person or thing attached or added.
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Law. any subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance.
adjective
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attached, affixed, or added
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attendant or associated as an accompaniment or result
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a less common word for pendent
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law relating to another right
noun
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a person or thing attached or added
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property law a subordinate right or interest, esp in or over land, attached to a greater interest and automatically passing with the sale of the latter
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of appendant
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English ap(p)endaunt, (in legal sense) from Anglo-French, present participle of apendre “to belong (to), befit,” from Medieval Latin appendēre, equivalent to Latin ap- ap- 1 + pendēre “to hang” (intransitive); later senses by association with append
Example Sentences
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Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
A right of pasture attached to land in the way we have described is said to be appendant or appurtenant to such land.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
An English river-fish of the carp family, distinguished by the four appendant beards, whence its name is derived.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Or again, why are the goats or the swine of a tenement sent to pasture by virtue of common appurtenant, and the cows and horses by virtue of common appendant?
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
This island is fertile, variegated with hill and dale, and equally beautiful as diversified with Rotti, and its appendant isles.
From Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 by Thomson, Basil
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