15 April 2018
appurtenant
[uh-pur-tn-uh nt]
adjective
1. appertaining or belonging; pertaining.
noun
2. an appurtenance.
Origin of appurtenant
Middle English, Late Latin
1350-1400; Middle English (see appurtenance, -ant ); replacing Middle English apertinent < Late Latin appertinent- (stem of appertinēns, present participle of appertinēre). See ap-1, pertinent
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Historical Examples
It is my duty to warn you that the property does not produce much revenue; the appurtenant estates are not well kept up.
The White House (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XII)
Charles Paul de Kock
And its appurtenant projectiles belong to the same branch as in the preceding case.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Only pieces of land together with the appurtenant territorial waters are alienable parts of territory.
International Law. A Treatise. Volume I (of 2)
Lassa Francis Oppenheim
Waste land (it may be) is given in large quantities, but merely as appurtenant to the profitable core of the gift.
Domesday Book and Beyond
Frederic William Maitland
Has any of your readers met with, or heard of the second short line, appendant and appurtenant to the first?
Notes & Queries, No. 39. Saturday, July 27, 1850
Various
Have the Dalbergs no ghost such as is appurtenant to all well-regulated royal families?
The Colonel of the Red Huzzars
John Reed Scott
A right of pasture attached to land in the way we have described is said to be appendant or appurtenant to such land.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7
Various
appurtenant to the towns of Karanglan and Pantabangan are a few minor communities, among them Patakgao.
The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon
David P. Barrows
Anagram
Apparent nut
pupa entrant
tartan pen up
papa turn net
Today’s quote
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
– Jacques Derrida
On this day
15 April 1452 – birth of Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian renaissance inventor, painter, sculptor, mathematician, writer. Died 2 May 1519.
15 April 1865 – Death of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln after being shot the day before. Born 12 February 1809.
15 April 1912 – RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton UK to New York City, USA, costing the lives of 1,502 people out of the 2,224 crew and passengers who were on board. The White Star Line, who owned the Titanic, had declared her unsinkable.