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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Advowsons are divided into two kinds, appendant and in gross.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
This parasitic appendant wreathes the woods sometimes almost in darkness, especially in those immense tracts on the borders of the Mexican Gulf that consist entirely of Cypress.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various
Or again, why does a plot of arable reclaimed from the waste confer common appurtenant, and ancient arable common appendant?
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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 Paul Vinogradoff
To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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