appanage

American  

[ap-uh-nij] / ˈæp ə nɪdʒ /

Or apanage

noun

1. land or some other source of revenue assigned for the maintenance of a member of the family of a ruling house.

2. whatever belongs rightfully or appropriately to one's rank or station in life.

3. a natural or necessary accompaniment; adjunct.

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appanage British  

/ ˈæpənɪdʒ /

noun

1. land or other provision granted by a king for the support of a member of the royal family, esp a younger son

2. a natural or customary accompaniment or perquisite, as to a job or position

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Etymology

Origin of appanage

1595–1605; < Middle French, Old French apanage, apeinaige, equivalent to apan ( er ) to endow (a younger son or daughter) with a maintenance (< Medieval Latin appānāre; ap- ap- ¹ + -pānāre, verbal derivative of Latin pānis bread; compare Old Provençal apanar to nourish) + -age -age

Example Sentences

He has an appanage, or territory, assigned to him to "eat," like other princes of the Empire.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various

His glory is the property of no party or opinion; it is the appanage and inheritance of all.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett

A systematic appeal to the deeper powers in man—conceived with the generality with which I have here conceived it—cannot remain a mere appanage of medical practice.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Even the Papacy, the only stable power, had become the appanage of a Roman family.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

The last appanage known in France was that enjoyed by the house of Orleans.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various