EGAVE

appendant

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Meaning

  1. adjective Attached as an appendage.
  2. adjective Annexed; concomitant.
    a seal appendant to a paper
  3. adjective 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. noun Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
  5. noun An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

Similar words

affixed adjunct supplemental adducent ancillary periappendicular trailing periappendiceal offwing parapeduncular

Often followed by

to or and orders is bodies on thereto a

Word family

appendants

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