appanage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: appanage	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for appanage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
appanage n 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" Synonym(s): appanage, apanage 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" Synonym(s): appanage, apanage
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Appanage \Ap"pa*nage\, n. [F. apanage, fr. OF. apaner to nourish, support, fr. LL. apanare to furnish with bread, to provision; L. ad + pains bread.] 1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons. 2. A dependency; a dependent territory.