Apanage

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apanage \Ap"an*age\, n.
     Same as {Appanage}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  apanage
       n 1: any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your
            station in life; "for thousands of years the chair was
            an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article
            of ordinary use" [syn: {appanage}]
       2: a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources
          to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family;
          "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger
          sons of great families" [syn: {appanage}]