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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Several smaller seats and whitened hamlets start up in the valley, and, glistening through their appendant groves, give life to the scene.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.
The following extract from Stow's Survey of London may serve to explain the appendant Bell.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 by Various
Common appendant, if we may use the modern term for the sake of brevity, is indissolubly connected with the system of husbandry followed by the village community.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
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 Vinogradoff, Paul
The desire of male heirs is not appendant only to feudal tenures.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
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