appendant

English

Etymology

append +‎ -ant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɛndənt/

Adjective

appendant (comparative more appendant, superlative most appendant)

1. Attached as an appendage.
2. Annexed; concomitant.

   a seal appendant to a paper

   • 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:

     As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.

3. (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; as, an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
   • 1628, Edw[ard] Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers, →OCLC:

     the franchise of waife and stray and such like are appendant , and the king purchaseth the mannor with the appurtenances, now are the royall franchises reunited to the crowne , and not appendant to the mannor

Derived terms

• appendant body

Noun

appendant (plural appendants)

1. Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
2. (law) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

appendant

1. present participle of appendre

Latin

Verb

appendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of appendō