appendant

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ap=pend=ant

CIDE DICTIONARY

appendant, a. [F. appendant, p. pr. of appendre. See Append, v. t.].

•  Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.  [1913 Webster]

  "As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity."  [1913 Webster]
•  Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.  Wharton. Coke.  [1913 Webster]

appendant, n. 

•  Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.  [1913 Webster]
•  A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

appendant, adj. & n.
--adj. (usu. foll. by to) attached in a subordinate capacity.
--n. an appendant person or thing.

Etymology

OF apendant f. apendre formed as APPEND, -ANT