What does appendant mean?

Definitions for appendant
əˈpɛn dəntap·pen·dant

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. appendantadjective

    affixed as an appendage

Wiktionary

  1. appendantnoun

    Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

  2. appendantnoun

    An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

  3. appendantadjective

    attached as an appendage

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Appendantadjective

    Etymology: French.

    He that despises the world, and all its appendant vanities, is the most secure. Jeremy Taylor, Rule of holy living.

    He that looks for the blessings appendant to the sacrament, must expect them upon no terms, but of a worthy communion. Jeremy Taylor, Worthy Communicant.

    Riches multiplied beyond the proportion of our character, and the wants appendant to it, naturally dispose men to forget God. John Rogers.

  2. Appendantnoun

    That which belongs to another thing, as an accidental or adventitious part.

    Pliny gives an account of the inventors of the forms and appendants of shipping. Matthew Hale, Origin of Mankind.

    A word, a look, a tread, will strike, as they are appendants to external symmetry, or indications of the beauty of the mind. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, b. ii. c. 6.

ChatGPT

  1. appendant

    Appendant refers to something that is attached, added, or supplemental to something else, often in a subordinate or secondary capacity. It can be a physical attachment or a conceptual component that is associated or connected closely with something else. The term is often used in legal, architectural, or heraldic terminology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Appendantverb

    hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper

  2. Appendantverb

    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

  3. Appendantnoun

    anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it

  4. Appendantnoun

    a inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance

  5. Etymology: [F. appendant, p. pr. of appendre. See Append, v. t.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of appendant in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of appendant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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