Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Affixed as an appendage.
- adjective Accompanying; attendant.
- adjective Belonging to a land grant as a subsidiary right in English law.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hanging to; annexed; attached; concomitant: as, a seal appendant to a paper.
- In law, appended to something by prescription: applied to a right or privilege attached to a principal inheritance: thus, in England, an advowson, that is, the right of patronage or presentation, is said to be appendant or annexed to the possession of a manor.
- noun That which belongs to another thing, as incidental or subordinate to it; an adjunct; a dependency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant.
- adjective (Law) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy.
- noun Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
- noun (Law) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
attached as anappendage - noun Anything attached to another as
incidental orsubordinate to it. - noun law An
inheritance annexed byprescription to asuperior inheritance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affixed as an appendage
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Examples
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In North America, a Master Mason can branch out and join other "appendant" groups such as the Scottish Rite, the Knights Templar or the Shriners.
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Clermont, for whom his uncle bought a commission, fixed himself in the army; though with no greater love of his country, than was appendant to the opportunity it afforded of shewing his fine person to regimental advantage.
Camilla 2008
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The Jesters appealed to the state board of tax appeals and were granted the property tax exemption after convincing the state that they were an appendant body of Masonry.
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She begins her career by being involved in all the worldly accidents of a parent; she continues it by being associated in all that may environ a husband: and the difficulties arising from this doubly appendant state, are augmented by the next to impossibility, that the first dependance should pave the way for the ultimate.
Camilla 2008
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This means that the appendant groups in the same states, such as the Shriners, also discriminate.
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Every inhabited island has its appendant and subordinate islets.
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These neophyte degrees—Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason—are stepping-stones to the higher degrees in the two main forms or “appendant” systems of American Masonry: the Scottish Rite and York Rite.
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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All these other questions are appendant or secondary and will in any case be questions that they will have to address.
Vp Gore And Russian Pm Chernomyrdin Press Conference ITY National Archives 1997
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For besides the rites of that dispensation, which the Holy Scripture doth openly and evidently fix to that land, such as Sacrifices, Passovers, the Priesthood, and other appointments of that nature (which are commonly, and not improperly, called "Statutes appendant to that land,") very many others also are circumscribed within the same borders by the fathers of the traditions.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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His distinction of free and dependent beauty, often criticized in the nineteenth century, may have a re - newed meaning in the modern period: free beauty exists only in idyllic nature, in flowers and in ara - besques, i.e., in the purposeless play of forms; depend - ent or appendant beauty presupposes the concept of what the object should be in its perfection.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968
qroqqa commented on the word appendant
The examples, thus mutilated, are no longer to be considered as conveying the sentiments or doctrine of their authours; the word for the sake of which they are inserted, with all its appendant clauses, has been carefully preserved; but it may sometimes happen, by hasty detruncation, that the general tendency of the sentence may be changed: the divine may desert his tenets, or the philosopher his system.
—Johnson, preface to his Dictionary
October 24, 2008