13 December 2014
appurtenance
[uh-pur-tn-uh ns]
noun
1. something subordinate to another, more important thing; adjunct; accessory.
2. Law. a right, privilege, or improvement belonging to and passing with a principal property.
3. appurtenances, apparatus; instruments.
Origin
Middle English
1350-1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, equivalent to ap- ap-1+ -purtenance a belonging; see purtenance
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Examples from the web for appurtenance
– But he did have one peculiar appurtenance : around his neck hung high-powered binoculars, painted shiny gold.
– The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.
– Access is defined as the ability to walk to the piping and/or appurtenance.
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Today’s aphorism
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
– Marian Wright Edelman
On this day
13 December 1937 – Nanking, China, is captured by Japanese forces. The Japanese General Matsui orders the destruction of the city, resulting in the massacre of more than 200,000 people, and rape and mutilation of around 20,000 women and girls.
13 December 1939 – Premier of the classic movie, Gone With The Wind, starring Clark Gable and Vivienne Leigh.
13 December 1995 – Thousands of people riot in Brixton, England, ransacking shops and attacking police.
13 December 2003 – US forces capture Saddam Hussein at a compound near Tikrit. He was executed by hanging on 30 December 2006 after being found guilty of the 1982 murder of 148 Iraqi Shi’ites.
13 December 2006 – Belgians react angrily to the news that their country is to be divided in two, with the Dutch speaking component of the country declaring their independence. The news was a joke propagated by Belgian public television station, R.T.B.F.
13 December 2007 – Pakistani President, Pervez Musharaff, moves responsibility for Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal from the Prime Minister to the President amid fears of it falling into the hands of Islamic extremists.