Appanage synonyms

ăp'ə-nĭj

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adjunct
Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position.
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endowment
That with which something is endowed; specif., any bequest or gift that provides an income for an institution or person
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perquisite
Something additional to regular profit or pay, resulting from one's position or employment, esp. something customary or expected
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prerogative
A right, or power that is exclusive to a monarch etc, especially such a power to make a decision or judgement.
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privilege
A basic civil right, guaranteed by a government
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right
A legal or moral entitlement.
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birthright
Something owed since birth, due to inheritance.
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droit
That to which one has legal claim
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owned (related)
A privilege granted a person, as by virtue of birth
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apanage
A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position.
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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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