[f. next + -ANT, by form-assoc. with accountant, attendant, etc.]
1. One who holds, or is in receipt of, an annuity.
1720. Meres (title), The Equity of Parliaments, etc., in answer to the Crisis of Property, and addressed to the Annuitants.
1758. Johnson, Idler, No. 24, ¶ 10. Materials for the meditation of the annuitant between the days of quarterly payment.
1823. Lamb, Elia (1860), 1. A lean annuitant like myself.
1858. Ld. St. Leonards, Property Law, xvii. 130. An old servant who dies, as even annuitants some time must.
2. fig.
1811. W. Spencer, Poems, 209. Annuitants of Fame, they took no care How ill their beggar’d successors might fare.
3. attrib. quasi-adj.
1792. A. Young, Trav. France, 474. A variety of annuitant societies.
