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Definition of Apanage

1. Noun. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life. "For thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use"

2. Noun. A grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family. "Bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families"

Definition of Apanage

1. n. Same as Appanage.

Definition of Apanage

1. Noun. A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright. ¹

2. Noun. A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apanage

1. appanage [n -S] - See also: appanage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apanage

apage apagoge apagoges apagogic apagogical apaid apair apaired apairing apairs

apallesthesia apallic apallic state apallic syndrome apamin apanage (current term) apanaged apanages apancreatic apansporoblastina

apanthropinisation apanthropinization apanthropinizations apanthropy apantomancy apar apara aparalytic aparathyreosis

Literary usage of Apanage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"This is the Fourth grand Crisis of Europe; crisis or travail-throe of Nature, bringing forth, and unable to do it, Baby Carlos's apanage and the Pragmatic ..."

2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"Baby Carlos gets his apanage. But in regard to that Treaty of Vienna, seventh and last of the travail-throes for Baby Carlos's apanage, ..."

3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"He and it will marvellously reemerge, one day I— Baby Carlos gets his apanage. But in regard to that Treaty of Vienna, seventh and last of the ..."

4. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1837)
"II rendit à Isa la moitié de son apanage, qu'il lui avait enlevée. ... _ >л'- « Le kadi ne t'a pas donné un apanage qui produise plus de trois mille ..."

5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1841)
"... towards England—Appointment of M. Guizot as Ambassador to Great Britain—Marriage of Duke de Nemours and question of apanage or Dotation. ..."

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