appurtenant

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  1. Appertaining or belonging; pertaining; incident or relating to, as a legal right, interest, or property subsidiary to one more valuable or important. Right of way … appurtenant to land. Blackstone, Commentaries, ii. 3. A part [of land common to a tribe] is allotted in a special way to the chief, as appurtenant to his office, and descends from chief to chief according to a special rule of succession. Edinburgh Rev.
  2. Common appurtenant. See common, n.
  3. A thing appertaining to another more important thing; an appurtenance; a belonging.

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  • Its configuration was similar to the one he already had, with a flat power source and a blinking red light, but the ridged metal lines on this one formed dif - ferent patterns. —  Ilse Witch
  • We flew up, passing over the next set of wires, wires flashing for just a moment in our landing lights, then the plane banked, turning hard right. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • Walker shook his head, coming fully awake. —  Ilse Witch
  • But it did not come from the Jerle Shannara. —  Ilse Witch
  • A little grunt, at least. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
 

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  1. Also written, less commonly, appertinent; from Middle English appertenant, apertinent, appurtenaunt, apurtenant, etc., from Old French apertenant, apartenant, from Late Latin appertinen(t-)s, present participle of appertinere, belong to, appertain: see appertain and -ant, and cf. appurtenance.
 

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