a. and sb. [a. Fr. appendant, pr. pple. of appendre. Orig. belonging to APPEND v.1, but subseq. influenced by APPEND v.2]
A. adj. Const. to, on.
1. Law. Attached or belonging to a possession or tenure as an additional but subsidiary right.
1523. Fitzherb., Surv., vi. (1539), 9. Those tenantes that haue commen appendaunt.
1649. Selden, Laws of Eng., I. xxxi. (1739), 46. Liberties … granted by Kings as appendant to Manors.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., II. 33. Common appendant is a right, belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land, to put commonable beasts upon the lord’s waste.
1844. Williams, Real Prop. Law (1877), 322. Incorporeal hereditaments which are appendant to such as are corporeal.
2. Of things material: Attached in a subordinate capacity or relation; annexed, adjunct.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., II. 13/2. The Orchades are adjudged to be appendant to Ireland.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 66. The stomach and guts, and their appendent Vessels, the lacteal Veins.
1775. Johnson, in Boswell, li. (1847), 463. Trianon is a kind of retreat appendant to Versailles.
1836. Blackw. Mag., XXXIX. 462/2. Make them feel that they are merely appendant on the great metropolis, and have no independent local character or consequence.
1865. Sat. Rev., 18 Feb., 185/2. To publish the Encyclical with its appendant Syllabus was an act of imprudence.
† b. transf. of persons. Obs.
1599. Marston, Sco. Villanie, II. vii. 203. His faire appendant whore That lackies him.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VII. 406. Chancellours, and Officialls, and other appendant limbs.
3. Attached by a relation of cause or purpose; pertinent, attendant, consequent.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XVI. vii. Because phisyke is appendaunt Unto the body by helpe of medecyne.
1539. Elyot, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. 142, II. 118. That office wherunto is as it were appendant losse of money and good name.
1692. South, 12 Serm. (1697), I. 41. A pleasure, embased with no appendant sting.
1779. Johnson, L. P., Watts, Wks. IV. 187. He offered to remit the salary appendant to it.
1805. Colebrooke, Vedas, in Asiat. Res., VIII. 372. I have learnt … the sciences appendant on holy writ.
1833. Chalmers, Const. Man (1835), I. ii. 127. The unavoidable pleasure appendant to the gratification of each of them.
4. lit. Hanging attached (to).
1576. Thynne, in Animadv., 115. Who further have appendante to that honour’s cheyne, Don Jasons Flese of golde.
1662. Fuller, Worthies (1840), II. 51. A rhyming epitaph is appendant on a pillar.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 22. With an Appendent Proboscis or Trunk.
a. 1711. Ken, Edmund, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 347. Dire knotted whips, arm’d with appendent Lead.
1762. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), II. 282. To which was appendent a gold medal.
1874. Riley, in 4th Rep. Comm. Hist. MSS., 449/2. The seal,… appendant by a silken cord, is in fine condition.
b. ‘Hanging’ with; decorated with (hanging ornaments).
a. 1797. H. Walpole, George II. (1847), III. i. 8. The right arm lined with fur, and appendent with many black ribands.
B. sb. [the adj. used absol.] arch.
1. Law. A lesser right or property attached by prescription to one more important.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. vii. 16. The towne of Sluse, with the apendauntes and profytes of the see.
1628. Coke, On Litt., 121 b. Appendant is any inheritance belonging to another that is superior or more worthy.
1809. Tomlins, Law Dict., I. H vij 2. Appendants are ever by prescription, and this makes a distinction between appendants and appurtenances.
2. A material addition of a subordinate nature; an adjunct, appendage; a dependency.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 416/1. The said dukedome of Burgundie and the appendents.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., II. note. The first [entrail-pipe] … is called ‘blind;’ at whose end is an appendent.
1692. Ray, Disc., iii. (1732), 24. The Sea with all its Creeks, Bays, and Inlets and other Appendants.
b. transf. of persons.
1641. Smectymnuus, Vind. Answ., § 13. 115. It is granted by our Remonstrant, and his appendant Scultetus.
1654. L’Estrange, Charles I., 167. All the Judges … with all the Officers and appendants of their Courts.
1814. Miss Burney, Wanderer, I. 395. An equal member of the community, not a poor … appendant to it.
3. A quality, property, principle, etc., naturally attached or logically resulting.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xiv. (1617), 219. The doctrine of Gods prouidence, and the immortalitie of our soules are so linked together, that the one is as an appendant to the other.
1749. Wesley, Wks., 1872, X. 124. To satisfy, though but as an appendant to the satisfaction of Christ.
1824. Coleridge, Aids to Refl. (1848), I. 198. The numerous corollaries or appendents.
4. An appendix; a pendant.
1570. T. Norton, trans. Nowell’s Catech. (1853), 202. A certain appendant of the Lord’s Prayer…. ‘For thine is the kingdom,’ [etc.].
1836. Southey, Cowper’s Wks., II. 96. To publish the Task and its appendants as a second [volume].
