| 释义 |
ap·pa·nage
I. noun
also ap·a·nage \ˈapənij\
(-s)
Etymology: French apanage, from Old French, from apaner to make suitable provision for a younger son or a daughter (from Old Provençal apanar to feed, support, from a- — from Latin ad- — + -panar, from pan bread, from Latin panis) + -age — more at food
1.
a. : a grant (as of lands, offices, state revenues, or money) made by a sovereign or a legislative body for the support of dependent members of the royal family or of the ruler's principal liege men
b. : a property or a privilege appropriated to or by a person as his share or perquisite
< religious supremacy became a kind of appanage to the civil sovereignty — H.H.Milman >
2. : a customary or rightful endowment or adjunct
< beauty which is the natural appanage of happiness — C.K.D.Patmore >
3.
a. : a territory or province held in possession as an appanage : principality
b. : a territory subject to outside rule : dependency
Synonyms: see right
II. transitive verb
also apanage
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to provide or endow with an appanage |