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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ap•pend•ant (ə pen′dənt),USA pronunciation adj. - attached or suspended;
annexed. - associated as an accompaniment or consequence:the salary appendant to a position.
- Lawpertaining to a legal appendant.
n. - a person or thing attached or added.
- Lawany subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance.
Also, ap•pend′ent. - Medieval Latin appendēre, equivalent. to Latin ap- ap-1 + pendēre to hang (intransitive); later senses by association with append
- Anglo-French, present participle of apendre to belong (to), befit
- Middle English ap(p)endaunt (in legal sense) 1350–1400
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