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

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

Of this once-magnificent establishment little now remains; merely portions of the appendant offices, which were converted into barns, &c., for farm-purposes.

From Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. by Brannon, George

And even to the performance of those duties which are in themselves a source of gratification to the well regulated mind, the inducements are greatly increased by appendant promises.

From A Sermon Preached on the Anniversary of the Boston Female Asylum for Destitute Orphans, September 25, 1835 by Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew

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

But the girl wondered at the trading-post and its appendant store-house they were fully twice the size she would have considered necessary, and constructed as to withstand a siege.

From The Gun-Brand by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

In that county there was a small plot of ground, called 'the hemp-yard,' appendant to almost every farm-house and to many of the best sort of cottages.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)