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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A source of revenue, such as land, given by a sovereign for the maintenance of a member of the ruling family.
  2. n. 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. n. A rightful or customary accompaniment or adjunct.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Originally, in the feudal law of France, that which was granted to the sons of the sovereign for their support, as lands and privileges, and which reverted to the crown on the failure of male heirs. In Scotland, at a later date, appanage was the patrimony of the king's eldest son, upon whose death or succession to the throne it reverted to the crown. In England, the duchy of Cornwall is sometimes regarded as an appanage of the Prince of Wales; in addition, he and other members of the royal family receive from Parliament allowances amounting to £156,000 out of the annual income derived from the hereditary crown lands surrendered to Parliament in the time of William IV.
  2. n. Whatever belongs or falls to one from one's rank or station in life.
  3. n. A natural or necessary accompaniment; an endowment or attribute.
  4. n. A dependent territory; a detached part of the dominions of a crown or government: as, India is now only an appanage of Great Britain.
  5. n. Also written apanage, and sometimes appenage.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright
  2. n. A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.
  2. n. A dependency; a dependent territory.
  3. n. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
  2. n. any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life

Etymologies

  1. From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare ‘to give bread’. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “By such men as Tom Pargeter and their like, the possibility of material misfortune attacking themselves and those who form what may be called their appanage, is never envisaged; and therefore, when such misfortune comes to them, as it does sooner or later to all human beings, the grim guest's presence is never accepted without an amazed sense of struggle and revolt.”

    The Uttermost Farthing

  • “I consider myself as a kind of appanage to the family, for my ancestors for several generations were their _maggiordomos_.”

    The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX

  • “Festus Bailey" came to be, to the general mind, an amusing kind of appanage of his own work, which was now taken as read, but ceased to have readers.”

    Hawthorne and His Circle

  • “It was not sold, but is the 'appanage' of the younger sons of the house of Dacres.”

    Some Private Views

  • “Younger sons of noble families proverbially come off second best in this country, but if one of them found his only 'appanage' was a mine, he would surely with some justice make a remonstrance.”

    Some Private Views

  • “It's clear that one 'fantasy' is replaced by another (the old aborigine as 'savage' accomplice/support for the colonial/conquest projectiles and today the indigenous histrionic as utopia/dreamworld scenes: necessary appanage of todays projectiles what every they might be?): Of court Zizek's typical nought is that narrator building observances our viewer of the tryst ... but if he sees through the narrator why are his activists identical to us idlers still caught in them?”

    Fictionaut: Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)

  • “Long live his hollowed shipmate, the Argonaut's shamrock, appanage of a participate of your motherland's assassin!”

    Fictionaut: Why is There Scientist Instead of Wisdom?

  • “Isabelle de Croye, the Duke expects your Majesty will, on your part, as he on his, yield your assent to the marriage, and unite with him in endowing the right noble couple with such an appanage, as, joined to the”

    Quentin Durward

  • “For the first offence, he was banished to his appanage of Dauphine, which he governed with much sagacity; for the second he was driven into absolute exile, and forced to throw himself on the mercy, and almost on the charity, of the Duke of Burgundy and his son; where he enjoyed hospitality, afterwards indifferently requited, until the death of his father in 1461.”

    Quentin Durward

  • ““Will the Holy Mother receive you without an appanage?” he said in a voice of scorn.”

    Quentin Durward

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synonyms (7)

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  1. dependency
  1. adjunct
  1. appurtenance
  1. proprium
  1. property
  1. perquisite
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  1. assignment
  1. grant
  1. perk
  1. perquisite
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  • yarb "So they told him he might have his pick of the Enchanted Isles, which were then, as they still remain, the nominal appanage of Peru."

    - Melville, The Encantadas, Sketch Seventh Sep 28, 2011

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