appanage
[noun]
Synonyms: right, birthright, perquisite, prerogative, privilege

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appanage noun. ['ap(ǝ)nɪdʒ] Also apanage. E17.
[Old & mod. French apanage, from apaner dower (a daughter) from medieval Latin appanare provide with means of subsistence, from Latin ad AP-¹ + panis bread: see -AGE.]
1. The provision made for the maintenance of the younger children of kings, princes, etc. (usu. a province, jurisdiction, or office). E17.
■ E. A. Freeman His son received..the apanage of Cumberland.

2. A natural accompaniment; a special attribute. M17.
■ Swift Had he thought it fit, That wealth should be the appennage of wit.

3. A dependent territory or property. E19.
■ Sydney Smith Ireland..the most valuable appanage of our empire. fig.:
■ T. E. Hulme Landscape was still a toy or an appanage of figure-painting when Turner and Constable arose to reveal its independent power.

4. A perquisite. M19.
■ Lytton Its revenues and its empire will become the appanage of the hardy soldier.

■ appanaged adjective endowed with an appanage M18.

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