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appendage|əˈpɛndɪdʒ|
[f. prec. + -age: cf. equipage; also apanage (in 17th c. appennage), by which the sense was perhaps influenced.]
That which is attached as if by being hung on; a subsidiary external adjunct, addition, or accompaniment, which does not form an essential part of that to which it is added, but is usually natural or appropriate to it. (Cf. appendix.)
1. of things material.
a. generally.
1713Derham Phys. Theol. iv. xii. 214 Clothing, another necessary Appendage of Life. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. II. 30 An army, with all its necessary appendages. 1854Brewster More Worlds iv. 76 The planet Saturn, encompassed with the extraordinary appendage of a ring.
esp. b. An addition to territory or property. Cf. apanage 3, appendant B. 1.
1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. i. iii. (1743) 15 Two of their [the Cinque-Ports'] appendages, Winchelsea and Rye, are in Sussex. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 783 The other islands..should be regarded as appendages to Curassou. 1876Digby Real Prop. i. §1. 7 Dwelling-houses and their appendages.
†c. An addition in writing; an appendix. Obs.
1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. Ded., That Appendage which is added concerning the Regiment of God.
d. Nat. Hist. A subordinate or subsidiary organ.
1785J. E. Smith in Leis. Hour June 1883, 353/1 The angular appendage to the nose of the American bat. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. vii. 135 All the appendages borne on the stem—such as scales, leaves, bracts, flowers, and fruit. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §59 Antennae and other appendages used for feeling.
2. of things immaterial.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. xvii. §5 If the pious action have been formerly joined with anything..truly criminal..I give cause..to think I approve of the old appendage. 1673Cave Prim. Chr. i. x. 327 Confirmation which ever was a constant appendage to Baptism. 1763J. Brown Poetry & Mus. §4. 40 The Dance..being only secondary, and merely an Appendage to the Song. 1848‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Pr. I. 8 Religion and gallantry soon made humanity an indispensable appendage of true valour.
3. transf. of persons.
1838Eliza Cook Melaia xxv, That rare appendage to a king, A friend that never played the slave. 1858Doran Court Fools 121 Such an official was not an uncommon appendage to legations. |