appendant

American  

[uh-pen-duhnt] / əˈpɛn dənt /

Or appendent

adjective

1. attached or suspended; annexed.

2. associated as an accompaniment or consequence.

   the salary appendant to a position.

3. Law. pertaining to a legal appendant.

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noun

1. a person or thing attached or added.

2. 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.

appendant British  

/ əˈpɛndənt /

adjective

1. attached, affixed, or added

2. attendant or associated as an accompaniment or result

3. a less common word for pendent

4. law relating to another right

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noun

1. a person or thing attached or added

2. 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

• appendance
  noun
• appendancy
  noun
• appendence
  noun
• appendency
  noun
• nonappendance
  noun
• nonappendant
  adjective
• nonappendence
  noun
• nonappendent
  adjective

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

The T with the bell appendant occurs on the sides of the centre coat; also the T single and labels, and over the top of the chimney the T and P C for Peter Courtenay.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 by Various

And for this reason the laxer right had to conform to the stricter one, and came to be considered as appendant to it.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

Sometimes the number of devotees performing together this painful pilgrimage is perfectly prodigious; p. 202they follow each other, in Indian file, along a narrow path which encircles the entire Lamasery and its appendant buildings. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis

Thirdly, the use of the soil, for various specified purposes, resided in the inhabitants of certain townships or hundreds, was appendant to certain tenements, or was reserved as easement on the sale of the land.

From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)

When the Highlanders read the Bible, they will naturally wish to have its obscurities cleared, and to know the history, collateral or appendant.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman