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appanage

NOUN
  1. a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
    bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families
  2. any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life
    for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use

How To Use appanage In A Sentence

  • The London Hungarian Committee in 1849 quoted Article X, by Leopold II, of the House of Hapsburg, in 1790, which definitely stated that "Hungary with her appanages is a free kingdom, and in regard to her whole legal form of government (including all the tribunals) independent; that is, entangled with no other kingdom or people, but having her own peculiar consistence and constitution; accordingly to be governed by her legitimately crowned king after her peculiar laws and customs. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
  • Younger sons of noble families proverbially come off second best in this country, but if one of them found his only 'appanage' was a mine, he would surely with some justice make a remonstrance. Some Private Views
  • Sidonia, in spite of the whispered dislike of an illustrious personage, opened the campaign with all the full appanages of a giant of the highest standing. Framley Parsonage
  • Therefore, he argued and agreed, must worlds and life be appanages to all the suns as they were appanages to the particular of his own solar system. THE RED ONE
  • bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families
  • I consider myself as a kind of appanage to the family, for my ancestors for several generations were their _maggiordomos_. The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
  • Long live his hollowed shipmate, the Argonaut's shamrock, appanage of a participate of your motherland's assassin! Why is There Scientist Instead of Wisdom?
  • for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use
  • Against repeated rebellions he maintained the integrity of his mother's appanage of Aquitaine.
  • But if he were acquitted, then would her claim to be called Lady Lovel, and to enjoy the appanages of her rank, be substantiated. Lady Anna
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