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appurtenance

Word definitions for appurtenance in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances. ▪ The high role of priests was symbolized by the precious substances lavished on their vestments and appurtenances. ▪ What ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An appendage added to something else. 2 (context in the plural English) equipment used for some specific task; gear. 3 The thing to which another pertain. 4 (context legal English) Minor property (such as an outhouse) that passes with the main property ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a supplementary component that improves capability [syn: accessory , supplement , add-on ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appurtenance \Ap*pur"te*nance\, n. [OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain .] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Appurtenances are things that belong to and go with something else, the appurtenance being less significant than what it belongs to. The word ultimately derives from Latin appertinere , "to appertain". In a legal context, an appurtenance could for instance ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "right, privilege or possession subsidiary to a principal one," from Anglo-French apurtenance (12c.), Old French apartenance , present participle of apartenir "be related to," from Latin appertinere "to pertain to," from ad- "to" (see ad- ) + pertinere ...

Usage examples of appurtenance.

That any customary tenant of the said manor seized of any estate of inheritance, in any customary tenement within the said manor, may cut timber, or any other trees standing or growing in or upon his said customary tenement, for repairs of his ancient customary messuages, with their appurtenances, and for estovers and other necessary things to be used upon such his customary tenement, without the licence or assignment of the lord of the said manor, but not for building new messuages for habitation.

If instead of moving outward it remained with the First, it would be no more than some appurtenance of that First, not a self-standing existent.

Pendergast gestured at the Gothic appurtenances that littered the car.

Smallweed and a parting salutation to the scornful Judy, strides out of the parlour, clashing imaginary sabres and other metallic appurtenances as he goes.

Bomba Square, with a church and its appurtenances at one end, government buildings at the other.

In addition to all those appurtenances of any garrison town, Basilea also had a fringe of docks, repair shops, chandleries and warehouses along the Rhenus riverfront.

Orderly rows of their big butterfly sleeping tents, and among them supply sheds, horse pens, armory and smithy and cooking tents, sties and folds for the pigs and sheep they brought along to eat, all the ordinary appurtenances of military camps.

Now it is quite clear--though you have perhaps never thought of it--that if the next generation of Englishmen consisted wholly of Julius Caesars, all our political, ecclesiastical, and moral institutions would vanish, and the less perishable of their appurtenances be classed with Stonehenge and the cromlechs and round towers as inexplicable relics of a bygone social order.

It could have hair, and eyes, and a voice, and all the features and appurtenances of a human being, so that it would, as far as outward appearance is concerned, be indistinguishable from a human being.

Did horrid things to a steak and appurtenances, soon felt marvelous, got an idea, worked on it, and was relaxing for a bit when you called.

The various appurtenances and projections of the complex molecules apparently adhere to different molecular receptors in the nasal mucosa, and the detectors for all the functional groups combine to put together a kind of collective olfactory image of the molecule.

A lot of slatternly women flitted hither and thither in a hurry, with coffee-pots, plates of bread, and other appurtenances to supper, and these were said to be the wives of the Angel--or some of them, at least.

Its three altars and other sacred appurtenances have crumbled and passed away years ago.

The translator was an old, gnarled Scrow gentleman who, despite his tribal appurtenances, had been trained in the university environs of Shiz.

Oh what a crossing for the straighteners and the old brown dress --which latter appurtenance the child saw thriftily revived for the possible disasters of travel!