appanage

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They had learned to consider the papacy as their appanage, and that they, under the Christian dispensation, were God's chosen people, as the Jews had been under the Mosaic At the end of the thirteenth century a new kingdom was discovered, capable of yielding immense revenues.

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  1. noun A source of revenue, such as land, given by a sovereign for the maintenance of a member of the ruling family.
  2. noun Something extra offered to or claimed by a party as due; a perquisite: The leaders of the opposition party agreed to accept another government's appanages, and in doing so became an officially paid agency of a foreign power.
  3. noun A rightful or customary accompaniment or adjunct.

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  • A brilliant appanage was allotted to him; he was to assume the title of Duc d'Orleans; to occupy a post in the Government; and to enjoy a revenue of a million of francs. —  The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 3
  • I behold The prosperous and belovéd Siegendorf Lord of a Prince's appanage, and honoured 320 By those he rules and those he ranks with Sieg. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
  • People who ventured on the Thames were liable to the foulest insults, and even to be run down by those who were pleased to regard the stream as their appanage, and who resented the appearance on it of any who seemed better dressed than themselves. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
  • He would then marry the daughter of one of them, and annex Scotland as her appanage. —  A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
  • You are the heir to a great name, which has been separated from the estates that are its appanage, and to a great tradition, which has been interrupted. —  The Lady Paramount
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  1. French apanage, from Old French, from apaner, to make provisions for, possibly from Medieval Latin appānāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin pānis, bread; see pā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French appanage, appenage (Cotgrave), apanage, now only apanage (later English also apanage), from Old French apaner = Provencal apanar, from Middle Latin *appanare, apanare, furnish with bread, from Latin ad, to, + panis (later F. pain), bread.
 

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