[a. Fr. appendance, f. a(p)pendre: see APPEND1 and -ANCE.]
† 1. A dependent possession, a dependency. Obs.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccxii. 258. Townes, castels, landes … or theyr appurtenaunces and appendaunces, whatsoeuer they be.
1598. Hakluyt, Voy., I. 2. Many other Islands beyond Norway … are appendances or Scantia.
1662. Fuller, Worthies, III. 16. So numerous is the Church with its Appendences.
† 2. An external or extraneous adjunct, addition or concomitant; an appendage. Obs.
1561. T. N[orton], Calvin’s Inst., IV. xviii. (1634), 712. The Masse taken in her most picked purenesse … without her appendances.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 969. Some haue thought them onely Appendances of certaine rootes left in the law.
1677. Hale, Contempl., II. 15. Even such a Tranquillity of mind … hath certain appendances to it, that abate that sincereness of Happiness.
3. Law. The fact of being appendant.
1832. Austin, Jurispr. (1879), II. l. 852. What is called appendance (if I may be permitted to coin an abstract name corresponding to the concrete appendant) is merely a species or modification of appurtenance. The distinction … is merely, that, into common appendant there enters the notion of the feudal relation constituted by tenure.
