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apanage, appanage|ˈæpənɪdʒ|
Also 7 appannage, -onage, apennage, 7–8 appennage, -enage.
[a. Fr. apanage (appanage, appennage), f. apaner to endow with the means of subsistence, Pr. apanar:—L. *appanāre, adpanāre (common in med.L.), f. ad to + pan-is bread: see -age. The Fr. was often spelt appanage in 15–16th c, and regularly appennage in 17th (Cotgr.); whence also the same forms in Eng., where appanage is still equally common with apanage.]
1. The provision made for the maintenance of the younger children of kings, princes, etc.; it was originally a province, jurisdiction, or lucrative office, but the grant has also been made in money. in apanage: in possession as an apanage.
1602Carew Cornwall 77 a, Belinus..had for his appannage (as the French terme it) Lœgria, Wales and Cornwall. 1605Camden Rem. 91 Valoys was but the Apponage..of Charles yonger sonne to Philip the second. 1645Howell Lett. iv. 18 Monsieur hath for his apennage 100000 Liures. 1728Morgan Hist. Algiers II. i. 217 Abdalaziz..had the State of Bujeya..left him in appennage. 1847Disraeli Tancred ii. iv. (1871) 70 Bishoprics..as appanages for the younger sons of great families. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. vi. 452 His son received, as usual, the apanage of Cumberland.
2. loosely, A specially appropriated possession; a perquisite.
1835Lytton Rienzi ii. iv. 134 Its revenues and its empire will become the appanage of the hardy soldier. 1862Lond. Rev. 26 July 71 The diplomatic service..must always remain the apanage of the wealthy.
3. A territory or property in the dependent condition of an apanage in sense 1; a dependency.
1807Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 166/2 Ireland..the most valuable appanage of our empire. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 187 The period when a ‘New World’ was the appanage of a European peninsula.
4. transf. A specially appointed, and hence, a natural or necessary, adjunct, accompaniment, endowment, or attribute.
1663Sir G. Mackenzie Relig. Stoic v. (1685) 36 One of the necessary Appanages of God's Omnipotency. 1731Swift To Gay Wks. 1775 IV. i. 168 Had he thought it fit, That wealth should be the appennage of wit. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iv. viii. 146 Respect is not the appanage of such as I am. 1875Swinburne Ess. & Stud. 249 This fretful and petulant appetite for applause, the proper apanage of small poets. |