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appanage
or ··Բ
[ ap-uh-nij ]
noun
- land or some other source of revenue assigned for the maintenance of a member of the family of a ruling house.
- whatever belongs rightfully or appropriately to one's rank or station in life.
- a natural or necessary accompaniment; adjunct.
appanage
/ ˈæəɪ /
noun
- land or other provision granted by a king for the support of a member of the royal family, esp a younger son
- a natural or customary accompaniment or perquisite, as to a job or position
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of appanage1
C17: from Old French, from Medieval Latin 岵ܳ, from to provide for, from Latin Ծ bread
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For the internal regulation of the conscience it had erected the institution of auricular confession, which by this time had become almost the exclusive appanage of the priesthood.
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The unsettled dispute about the appanage had been aggravated by the struggle over their mother's will.
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The Romans retained it for as long a period as the Phœnicians; and after being ravaged by Goths and Vandals, it was for three and a half centuries an appanage of the crown of Byzantium.
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A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.
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Dunois reconquered for them their hereditary rights, the extensive appanages of the house of Orleans.
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