Appanage Definition

apənij
noun
A source of revenue, such as land, given by a sovereign for the maintenance of a member of the ruling family.
American Heritage
Money, land, etc. granted by a monarch for the support of his younger children.
Webster's New World
Something extra offered to or claimed by a party as due; a perquisite.
The leaders of the opposition party agreed to accept another government's appanages, and in doing so became an officially paid agency of a foreign power.
American Heritage
A person's rightful extra gain; perquisite.
Webster's New World
A rightful or customary accompaniment or adjunct.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Appanage

Noun

Singular:
appanage
Plural:
appanages

Origin of Appanage

  • French apanage from Old French from apaner to make provisions for possibly from Medieval Latin appānāre Latin ad- ad- Latin pānis bread pā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare ‘to give bread’.

    From Wiktionary

Appanage Sentence Examples

  • But Fulk le Rechin (the Cross-looking), brother of Geoffrey the Bearded, who had at first been contented with an appanage consisting of Saintonge and the chcitellenie of Vihiers, having allowed Saintonge to be taken in 1062 by the duke of Aquitaine, took advantage of the general discontent aroused in the countship by the unskilful policy of Geoffrey to make himself master of Saumur (25th of February 1067) and Angers (4 th of April), and cast Geoffrey into prison at Sable.

  • By Maximilian's administrative organization of the empire in 1500 the duchy of Westphalia was included as an appanage of Cologne in the scattered circle of the Lower Rhine.

  • The Terre d'Auvergne was first an appanage of Count Alphonse of Poitiers (1241-1271), and in 1360 was erected into a duchy in the peerage of France (duch y -pairie) by King John II.

  • While the persevering policy of the Capets, which aimed at reuniting the great fiefs, duchies, countships, baronies, &c., to the domain of the crown, gradually reconstructed for their benefit a territorial sovereignty over France, the institution of the appanage periodically subtracted large portions from it.

  • However, it is evident from the letters of appanage, dated April 1771, in favour of the count of Provence, how many functions of public authority an appanaged person still held.

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EGEAGE

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