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appurtenance

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishappurtenaunce, fromAnglo-Normanapurtenance andOld Frenchapartenance, fromapartenir, fromLatinappertineō(I belong, I appertain). More atappertain. Bysurface analysis,appertain +‎-ance.

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Noun

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appurtenance (pluralappurtenances)

  1. That whichappertains; anappendage to something else; anaddition.[fromc. 1300]
  2. (in theplural)Equipment used for some specifictask;gear.[from late 14th c.]
    • 1693,Will[iam] Congreve,The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. [], London: [] Peter Buck, [],→OCLC, Act II, scene[ii],page14:
      Araminta, come I'll talk ſeriouſly to you now, could you but ſee vvith my Eyes the buffoonry of one Scene of Addreſs, a Lover, ſet out with all his Equipage andAppurtenances;[]
    • 2013 July 6,Steven Poole, “Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism?”, inThe Guardian[1]:
      In the case of the urban consumer of nature writing, of course, the mud is to be hosed off one's mental Range Rover immediately one lifts one's eyes from the page and gives silent thanks for the civilisedappurtenances of hot yoga and flat whites.
    • 2014 August 2,Teddy Wayne, “A Parchment on Millennials”, inThe New York Times[2],→ISSN:
      These “millennials” are, without a doubt, the most narcissistic and hopeless cohort I have witnessed in my 35 long years on this stationary planet. Consider, first, their absurd sartorialappurtenances, such as leggings sewn with skinny girths.
  3. (law) Asubordinateinterest in land whichbenefits aprincipal estate, which cannot bedetached from or heldseparately to that estate; anappurtenant interest.
    Synonym:contenement
    • 1908, Samuel Charles Wiel,Water Rights in the Western States, page340:
      It is well settled that a water right may pass with land as anappurtenance thereto, or as a parcel thereof.
    • 2019, Michèle Schindler,Lovell our Dogge:
      Also I will that anon after the said nine years after my decease determined that my said feoffees make estate of all the said manors, lands and tenements with theappurtenance to my next heir and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten.
  4. (grammar) Amodifier that isappended orprepended to another word tocoin a new word that expresses belonging.
  5. The state or quality of being an appurtenance.
    • 1970, United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs,Outer Continental Shelf, page275:
      Thus, these two characteristics —appurtenance and the lack of need for any act of acquisition - go together and depend upon each other; one is merely looking at different facets of the same thing.
    • 2005, Jaan Valsiner,Heinz Werner and Developmental Science, page262:
      A second father is Kurt Koffka for his principle ofappurtenance that he expanded from motions to colors.

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Translations

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appendage added to something else
equipment for some specific task
thing to which another pertains
(law) minor property that passes with the main property
(language) modifier appended or prepended to another word to express belonging
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