appendant

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English

Etymology

From append +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

Adjective

appendant (comparative more appendant, superlative most appendant)

  1. Attached as an appendage.
  2. Annexed; concomitant.
    a seal appendant to a paper
    • 1651–1653, Jer Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ . A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. , 2nd edition, London: Richard Royston , published 1655, →OCLC:
      As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.
  3. (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.

Derived terms

Noun

appendant (plural appendants)

  1. Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
  2. (law) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

appendant

  1. present participle of appendre

Latin

Verb

appendant

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of appendō