Definitions for appendant

appendant ap·pend·ant

Spelling: [uh-pen-duh nt]
IPA: /əˈpɛn dənt/

Appendant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in appendant (aadennppt).

Definitions for appendant

noun

  1. a person or thing attached or added.
  2. 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.

adjective

  1. attached or suspended; annexed.
  2. associated as an accompaniment or consequence:
  3. Law. pertaining to a legal appendant.

Origin of appendant

1350-1400; Middle English ap(p)endaunt (in legal sense) Anglo-French, present participle of apendre to belong (to), befit Medieval Latin appendēre, equivalent to Latin ap-

Examples for appendant

This island is fertile, variegated with hill and dale, and equally beautiful as diversified with Rotti, and its appendant isles.

Every inhabited island has its appendant and subordinate islets.

I saw but one woman whose under lip was split and disfigured with an appendant ornament.

A right of pasture attached to land in the way we have described is said to be appendant or appurtenant to such land.

And for this reason the laxer right had to conform to the stricter one, and came to be considered as appendant to it.

Crown lands often included palaces and their appendant farms, and burhs.

An English river-fish of the carp family, distinguished by the four appendant beards, whence its name is derived.

Was this right appurtenant to the manor, or was it also appendant to a frank tenement in a particular vill?

Has any of your readers met with, or heard of the second short line, appendant and appurtenant to the first?

Word Value for appendant
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