单词 | appendant |
释义 | appendantor ap·pend·ent[ uh-pen-duhnt ] / əˈpɛn dənt / adjectiveattached or suspended; annexed. associated as an accompaniment or consequence: the salary appendant to a position. Law. pertaining to a legal appendant. nouna person or thing attached or added. Law. any subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance. Origin of appendant1350–1400; Middle English ap(p)endaunt (in legal sense) <Anglo-French, present participle of apendre to belong (to), befit <Medieval Latin appendēre, equivalent to Latin ap-ap-1 + pendēre to hang (intransitive); later senses by association with append OTHER WORDS FROM appendantWords nearby appendant'appen, append, appendage, appendages of eye, appendages of skin, appendant, appendectomy, appendiceal, appendiceal abscess, appendicectomy, appendices Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for appendantBritish Dictionary definitions for appendantappendant / (əˈpɛndənt) / adjectiveattached, affixed, or added attendant or associated as an accompaniment or result a less common word for pendent law relating to another right nouna person or thing attached or added property law a subordinate right or interest, esp in or over land, attached to a greater interest and automatically passing with the sale of the latter Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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