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Appurtenance definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

APPUR'TENANCE, n. so written for appertenance. See Appertain.]
That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage. Appropriately, such buildings, rights and improvements, as belong to land, are called the appurtenances; as small buildings are the appurtenances of a mansion.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

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 Reference Dictionary

n. (usu. in pl.) a belonging; an appendage; an accessory. Etymology: ME f. AF apurtenaunce, OF apertenance (as APPERTAIN, -ANCE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

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