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    appanage
    [ noun ]
    1. any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life

    2. <noun.possession>
      for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use
    3. a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family

    4. <noun.possession>
      bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families


    Appanage \Ap"pa*nage\, n. [F. apanage, fr. OF. apaner to
    nourish, support, fr. LL. apanare to furnish with bread, to
    provision; L. ad + pains bread.]
    1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the
    subsistence of his younger sons.

    2. A dependency; a dependent territory.

    3. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural
    adjunct or accompaniment. ``Wealth . . . the appanage of
    wit.'' --Swift.

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