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English
Etymology
From append + -ant.
Pronunciation
Adjective
appendant (comparative more appendant, superlative most appendant)
- Attached as an appendage.
- 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.
- (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.
1628, Edw Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. , London: for the Societe of Stationers, →OCLC, book 2, chapter 11, section 184, folio 121, verso:If A. be ſeiſed of a mannor whereunto the franchiſe of waife and ſtray and ſuch like are appendant, and the King purchaſeth the mannor with the appurtenances, now are the royall Franchiſes reunited to the Crowne, and not appendant to the Mannor, […]
Derived terms
Noun
appendant (plural appendants)
- Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
- (law) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
French
Pronunciation
Participle
appendant
- present participle of appendre
Latin
Verb
appendant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of appendō