Found 2 items, similar to appanage.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: appanage appanage n 1: 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” [syn: apanage] 2: 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” [syn: apanage]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Appanage 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A dependency; a dependent territory. [1913 Webster] 3. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment. “Wealth . . . the appanage of wit.” --Swift. [1913 Webster]