单词 | appanage |
释义 | appanagen. 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 appanage: in possession as an appanage. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > provision for younger children appanage1602 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 77 Belinus..had for his appannage (as the French terme it) Loegria, Wales and Cornwall. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 91 Valoys was but the Apponage..of Charles yonger sonne to Philip the second. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. xiii. 18 Monsieur hath for his apennage 100000 Liures. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. i. 217 Abdalaziz..had the State of Bujeya..left him in appennage. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. iv. 144 The time had gone by..for bishoprics to serve as appanages for the younger sons of great families. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 500 His son received, as usual, the appanage of Cumberland. 2. loosely, A specially appropriated possession; a perquisite. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > private property > a piece of peculium1609 perquisite1793 appanage1835 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. iv. 265 Its revenues and its empire will become the appanage of the hardy soldier. 1862 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 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 appanage in sense 1; a dependency. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a dependent possession aparauntc1400 appendance1523 limba1647 dependency1684 appendage1694 appanage1807 1807 S. Smith P. Plymley's Lett. in Wks. (1859) II. 166/2 Ireland..the most valuable appanage of our empire. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 187 The period when a ‘New World’ was the appanage of a European peninsula. 4. transferred. A specially appointed, and hence, a natural or necessary, adjunct, accompaniment, endowment, or attribute. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > that which accompanies purtenancea1382 accessory1429 retinue?a1439 accessaryc1475 companion1533 annexe?1541 hanger-ona1555 supply1567 copemate1581 complement1586 fere1593 adjective1597 annexment1604 annexary1605 attendant1607 adherence1610 adjacent1610 wife1616 fellower1620 coincident1626 attendancy1654 associate1658 appanage1663 conjunct1667 perquisite1667 familiar1668 satellite1702 accompaniment1709 accompanying1761 side dish1775 obbligato1825 shadow1830 rider1859 gadget1917 1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 33 One of the necessary appanages of God's Omnipotency. 1731 J. Swift To Gay in Wks. (1735) II. 419 Had he thought it fit, That, Wealth should be the Appenage of Wit. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. iv. viii. 94 Respect is not the appanage of such as I am. 1875 A. C. Swinburne Ess. & Stud. 249 This fretful and petulant appetite for applause, the proper apanage of small poets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1602 |
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