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adjective

Appendant adj.

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. "As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity."

(Law) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.

noun

Appendant n.

Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

(Law) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

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Etymology of 'Appendant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Appendant" Quotes from Famous Books

... magnificent tree, whose appearance would be very lively and cheerful, were it not for the abundance of long trailing "moss" (usnea) that hangs, like funereal drapery, from its branches, and darkens the whole forest. This parasitic appendant wreathes the woods sometimes almost in darkness, especially in those immense tracts on the borders of the Mexican Gulf that consist entirely of Cypress. There it has been poetically styled the "Garlands of Death," as significant of the fevers ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 46, August, 1861 • Various