appurtenant

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appurtenant - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Appurtenant \Ap*pur"te*nant\, a. [F. appartenant, p. pr. of
     appartenir. See Appurtenance.]
     Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing;
     accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land
     or buildings. --Blackstone.
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     Common appurtenant. (Law) See under Common, n.
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  Appurtenant \Ap*pur"te*nant\, n.
     Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an
     appurtenance.
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           Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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  Appertinent \Ap*per"ti*nent\, a.
     Belonging; appertaining. [Now usually written appurtenant.]
     --Coleridge.
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appurtenant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  appurtenant
      adj 1: furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an
             adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and
             emotions are auxiliary to each other" [syn: accessory,
             adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant,
             auxiliary]

appurtenant - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  APPURTENANT. Belonging to; pertaining to of right.