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appendant

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ap⋅pend⋅ant

  [uh-pen-duhnt]
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–adjective
1. attached or suspended; annexed.
2. associated as an accompaniment or consequence: the salary appendant to a position.
3. Law. pertaining to a legal appendant.
–noun
4. a person or thing attached or added.
5. 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.
Also, ap⋅pend⋅ent.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME ap(p)endaunt (in legal sense) < AF, prp. of apendre to belong (to), befit < ML appendēre, equiv. to L ap- ap- 1 + pendēre to hang (intransit.); later senses by assoc. with append

Related forms:
ap⋅pend⋅ance, ap⋅pend⋅an⋅cy, ap⋅pend⋅ence, ap⋅pend⋅en⋅cy, noun
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ap·pen·dant   (ə-pěn'dənt)   
adj.  

  1. Affixed as an appendage.

  2. Accompanying; attendant: faith and its appendant hope.

  3. Belonging to a land grant as a subsidiary right in English law.

ap·pen'dant n.
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