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appendant, -ent, a. and n.|əˈpɛndənt|
[a. Fr. appendant, pr. pple. of appendre. Orig. belonging to append v.1, but subseq. influenced by append v.2]
A. adj. Const. to, on.
1. Law. Attached or belonging to a possession or tenure as an additional but subsidiary right.
1523Fitzherb. Surv. vi. (1539) 9 Those tenantes that haue commen appendaunt. 1649Selden Laws of Eng. i. xxxi. (1739) 46 Liberties..granted by Kings as appendant to Manors. 1768Blackstone Comm. II. 33 Common appendant is a right, belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land, to put commonable beasts upon the lord's waste. 1844Williams Real Prop. Law (1877) 322 Incorporeal hereditaments which are appendant to such as are corporeal.
2. Of things material: Attached in a subordinate capacity or relation; annexed, adjunct.
1577Holinshed Chron. II. 13/2 The Orchades are adjudged to be appendant to Ireland. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 66 The stomach and guts, and their appendent Vessels, the lacteal Veins. 1775Johnson in Boswell li. (1847) 463 Trianon is a kind of retreat appendant to Versailles. 1836Blackw. Mag. XXXIX. 462 That they are merely appendant on the great metropolis, and have no independent local character. 1865Sat. Rev. 18 Feb. 85 The Encyclical with its appendant Syllabus.
†b. transf. of persons. Obs.
1599Marston Sc. Villanie ii. vii. 203 His faire appendant whore That lackies him. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vii. 406 Chancellours, and Officialls, and other appendant limbs.
3. Attached by a relation of cause or purpose; pertinent, attendant, consequent.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xvi. vii, Because phisyke is appendaunt Unto the body by helpe of medecyne. 1539Elyot in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 142 II. 118 That office wherunto is as it were appendant losse of money and good name. 1692South 12 Serm. (1697) I. 41 A pleasure, embased with no appendant sting. 1779Johnson L.P., Watts Wks. IV. 187 He offered to remit the salary appendant to it. 1808Colebrooke Vedas in Asiat. Res. VIII. 380, I have learnt..the sciences appendant on holy writ. 1833Chalmers Const. Man (1835) I. ii. 127 The unavoidable pleasure appendant to the gratification of each of them.
4. lit. Hanging attached (to).
1576Thynne in Animadv. 115 Who further have appendante to that honour's cheyne, Don Jasons Flese of golde. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 51 A rhyming epitaph is appendant on a pillar. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 22 With an Appendent Proboscis or Trunk. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 347 Dire knotted whips, arm'd with appendent Lead. 1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) II. 282 To which was appendent a gold medal. 1874Riley 4th Rep. Com. Hist. MSS. 449/2 The seal..appendant by a silken cord.
b. ‘Hanging’ with; decorated with (hanging ornaments).
a1797H. Walpole George II (1847) III. i. 8 The right arm lined with fur, and appendent with many black ribands.
B. n. [the adj. used absol.] arch.
1. Law. A lesser right or property attached by prescription to one more important.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. vii. 16 The towne of Sluse, with the apendauntes and profytes of the see. 1628Coke On Litt. 121 b, Appendant is any inheritance belonging to another that is superior or more worthy. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. I. H vij/2 Appendants are ever by prescription, and this makes a distinction between appendants and appurtenances.
2. A material addition of a subordinate nature; an adjunct, appendage; a dependency.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 416/1 The said dukedome of Burgundie and the appendents. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ii. note, The first [entrail-pipe]..is called ‘blind;’ at whose end is an appendent. 1692Ray Disc. iii. (1732) 24 The Sea with all its Creeks, Bays, and Inlets and other Appendants.
b. transf. of persons.
1641Smectymnuus Vind. Answ. §13. 115 It is granted by our Remonstrant, and his appendant Scultetus. 1654Lestrange Charles I, 167 All the Judges..with all the Officers and appendants of their Courts. 1814F. Burney Wanderer I. 395 An equal member of the community, not a poor..appendant to it.
3. A quality, property, principle, etc. naturally attached or logically resulting.
1587Golding De Mornay xiv. (1617) 219 The doctrine of Gods prouidence, and the immortalitie of our soules are so linked together, that the one is as an appendant to the other. 1749Wesley Wks. 1872 X. 124 To satisfy, though but as an appendant to the satisfaction of Christ. 1824Coleridge Aids to Refl. (1848) I. 198 The numerous corollaries or appendents.
4. An appendix; a pendant.
1570T. Norton Nowel's Catech. (1853) 202 A certain appendant of the Lord's Prayer. ‘For thine is the kingdom,’ etc. 1836Southey Cowper's Wks. II. 96 To publish the Task and its appendants as a second [volume]. |