Appendant: Definition and part of speech

Appendant

  1. n. A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
  2. v. t. Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.
  3. v. t. 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.
  4. n. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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