appendant

or ap·pend·ent

[ uh-pen-duhnt ]

adjective

attached or suspended; annexed.
associated as an accompaniment or consequence: the salary appendant to a position.

Law. pertaining to a legal appendant.

noun

a person or thing attached or added.
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.

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

Other words from appendant

ap·pend·ance, ap·pend·an·cy, ap·pend·ence, ap·pend·en·cy, noun
non·ap·pend·ance, noun
non·ap·pend·ant, adjective
non·ap·pend·ence, noun
non·ap·pend·ent, adjective

Words Nearby appendant

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How to use appendant in a sentence

This island is fertile, variegated with hill and dale, and equally beautiful as diversified with Rotti, and its appendant isles.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora | Edward Edwards
Common appendant, common appurtenant, common in gross, and common par cause de vicinage.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century | Richard Henry Tawney
Has any of your readers met with, or heard of the second short line, appendant and appurtenant to the first?
Notes & Queries, No. 39. Saturday, July 27, 1850 | Various
Question, 'Does the villein pass to the grantee as a villein in gross, or as a villein appendant to that acre?'
Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 | Various
A right of pasture attached to land in the way we have described is said to be appendant or appurtenant to such land.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 | Various

British Dictionary definitions for appendant

appendant

/ (əˈpɛndənt) /

adjective

attached, affixed, or added
attendant or associated as an accompaniment or result

a less common word for pendent
law relating to another right

noun

a person or thing attached or added
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

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