Appanage

3 definitions found

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

  Appanage \Ap"pa*nage\, n. [F. apanage, fr. OF. apaner to
     nourish, support, fr. LL. apanare to furnish with bread, to
     provision; L. ad + pains bread.]
     1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the
        subsistence of his younger sons.
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     2. A dependency; a dependent territory.
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     3. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural
        adjunct or accompaniment. "Wealth . . . the appanage of
        wit." --Swift.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  appanage
       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: {apanage}]
       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: {apanage}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "appanage":
     accession, accessories, accessory, accompaniment, addenda,
     addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum,
     adjunct, adjuvant, annex, annexation, appanages, appendage,
     appendages, appendant, appointments, appurtenance, appurtenances,
     appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, belongings,
     birthright, choses, choses in action, choses in possession,
     choses local, choses transitory, coda, complement, concomitant,
     continuation, corollary, dot, dower, dowry, endowment, extension,
     extrapolation, fixture, foundation, increase, increment,
     investment, jointure, legal jointure, marriage portion,
     material things, movables, offshoot, paraphernalia, pendant,
     perquisite, perquisites, personal effects, portion, prerogative,
     privilege, reinforcement, settlement, side effect, side issue,
     supplement, tailpiece, things, thirds, trappings, undergirding