Appanage

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of apanage. alt-of, alternative

    "A bishop with a regular salary, and no appanage of land and land-bailiffs, is only half a bishop."

  2. 2
    a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family wordnet
  3. 3
    any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of apanage. alt-of, alternative

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