单词 | appendant |
释义 | appendant —appendance, appendancy, appendence, appendency, n. /euh pen"deuhnt/, adj. 1. attached or suspended; annexed. 2. associated as an accompaniment or consequence: the salary appendant to a position. 3. Law. pertaining to a legal appendant. n. 4. a person or thing attached or added. 5. Law. any subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance. Also, appendent. [1350-1400; ME ap(p)endaunt (in legal sense) < AF, prp. of apendre to belong (to), befit < ML appendere, equiv. to L ap- AP-1 + pendere to hang (intransit.); later senses by assoc. with APPEND] |
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