APPURTENANCE DEFINITIONS - 7 definitions found
appurtenance n 1: equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. [syn: gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance] 2: a supplementary component that improves capability [syn: accessory, appurtenance, supplement, add-on] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) appurtenance noun Date: 14th century 1. an incidental right (as a right-of-way) attached to a principal property right and passing in possession with it 2. a subordinate part or adjunct <the appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony — Shakespeare> 3. plural accessory objects ; apparatus <the appurtenances of wealth> Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary appurtenance əˈpə:tɪnəns n. (usu. in pl.) a belonging; an appendage; an accessory. [ME f. AF apurtenaunce, OF apertenance (as APPERTAIN, -ANCE)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Appurtenance \Ap*pur"te*nance\, n. [OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain.] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. --Tomlins. --Bouvier. --Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. --Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. --Reid. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 109 Moby Thesaurus words for "appurtenance": accession, accessory, accident, accidental, accommodation, accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, advantage, amenity, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appendix, appliance, appointment, appurtenant, aspect, attachment, augment, augmentation, authority, auxiliary, birthright, circumstance, claim, coda, collateral, complement, component, concomitant, conjugal right, constituent, contents, contingency, contingent, continuation, convenience, corollary, demand, detail, divine right, droit, due, element, equipment, extension, extra, extrapolation, facility, factor, faculty, feature, fixings, fixture, furnishings, furniture, happenstance, inalienable right, incidental, increase, increment, inessential, ingredient, integrant, interest, item, makings, mere chance, natural right, nonessential, not-self, offshoot, other, part, part and parcel, pendant, power, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, proper claim, property right, reinforcement, right, secondary, side effect, side issue, specialty, subsidiary, superaddition, supplement, tailpiece, title, undergirding, unessential, vested interest, vested right |
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