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a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families -
any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life
for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use
How To Use appanage In A Sentence
- It had suited his taste to keep these things in abeyance, and to place his pride in the oaks and elms of his park rather than in any of those appanages of grandeur which a man may carry about with him. He Knew He Was Right
- “Will the Holy Mother receive you without an appanage?” he said in a voice of scorn. Quentin Durward
- But she was awed by his appearance and by the increased appanages of his sick-bed. The American Senator
- Festus Bailey" came to be, to the general mind, an amusing kind of appanage of his own work, which was now taken as read, but ceased to have readers. Hawthorne and His Circle
- It's clear that one 'fantasy' is replaced by another (the old aborigine as 'savage' accomplice/support for the colonial/conquest projectiles and today the indigenous histrionic as utopia/dreamworld scenes: necessary appanage of todays projectiles what every they might be?): Of court Zizek's typical nought is that narrator building observances our viewer of the tryst ... but if he sees through the narrator why are his activists identical to us idlers still caught in them? Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)
- By such men as Tom Pargeter and their like, the possibility of material misfortune attacking themselves and those who form what may be called their appanage, is never envisaged; and therefore, when such misfortune comes to them, as it does sooner or later to all human beings, the grim guest's presence is never accepted without an amazed sense of struggle and revolt. The Uttermost Farthing
- For the first offence, he was banished to his appanage of Dauphine, which he governed with much sagacity; for the second he was driven into absolute exile, and forced to throw himself on the mercy, and almost on the charity, of the Duke of Burgundy and his son; where he enjoyed hospitality, afterwards indifferently requited, until the death of his father in 1461. Quentin Durward
- The appanages grasped by himself -- the dotation and bridal outfit of the Duke of Orléans -- the dotation sought for the Duke of Nemours, and his appointment as Regent during the minority of the Count of Paris -- the Edmond Dantès
- These last threats, uttered more obscurely than the others, obviously concerned the person of the King, and at one time the Duke expressed his determination to send for the Duke of Normandy, the brother of the King, and with whom Louis was on the worst terms, in order to compel the captive monarch to surrender either the Crown itself, or some of its most valuable rights and appanages. Quentin Durward
- The West Saxon kings used Kent as a sort of appanage to be ruled as subkingdoms by West Saxon princes.