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
• nonappendence
  noun
• nonappendant
  adjective
• nonappendent
  adjective

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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

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Example Sentences

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appendant

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 Evariste Regis Huc

What is called in later law common appendant, appears as the normal adjunct to the holding, that is, to a share in the system of village husbandry.

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

Robert Bland was rector of Weyborough-magna, with the chapel of Sale appendant, in the County of Essex.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

Has any of your readers met with, or heard of the second short line, appendant and appurtenant to the first?

From Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 by Various

Question, 'Does the villein pass to the grantee as a villein in gross, or as a villein appendant to that acre?'

From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell

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