a. and sb. Forms: 4–5 ap- or app-urtenaunt(e, apertinent, -ynent, -enent, 4–6 ap- or app-ertenaunt(e, -ant, 5–9 appertinent, -eynent, 6– appurtenant. [a. OF. apartenant, -ertenant, (pr. pple. of apartenir):—L. appertinēnt-em: see APPURTENANCE and -ANT. In sense 2 often refashioned after L. as appertinent.]
A. adj.
1. Belonging as a property or legal right (to); spec. in Law, constituting a property or right subsidiary to one which is more important.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Monkes T., 325. Many a fair citee Apertenaunt unto the magesté Of Rome.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 265. She by wey of covenaunt To his service apurtenaunt Was hole.
1598. Kitchin, Courts Leet (1675), 186. Common Appurtenant is for all manner of Beasts.
1654. Ussher, Annals, VI. (1658), 399. Two Cities of Thracia … appurtenant to the Chersonese of Thracia.
1818. Hallam, Mid. Ages, I. ii. 205. Villeins, appurtenant to the soil of the master.
1876. Digby, Real Prop., iii. ii. § 18. 155. Rights … appurtenant, or rights which are exercised over tenement B (called the praedium serviens) by the successive owners of tenement A (praedium dominans) as and being such owners.
2. Appertaining as if by right (to); proper, suited, or appropriate to; relating, pertinent.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Clerkes T., 954. Euery thing, That to the feste was apertinent.
1413. Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle, IV. xxxvi. (1483), 84. More apperteynent to worshyp of a worthy knyght than a traylyng gowne.
1577. Harrison, England, I. II. vi. 144. White meats … are now reputed as food appertinent onelie to the inferiour sort.
1661. Hickeringill, Jamaica, 91. The most promising designs … promoted with all the appertinent utensills, that policy can contrive.
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 100 (note). Appurtenant to the subject.
1819. Coleridge, Lett., Sept. (1836), Those temptations … most appertinent to our particular calling.
B. sb. A thing appertaining; a ‘belonging.’
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 276/3. The same towne with alle thappertonentes.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., II. ii. 87. To furnish him with all appertinents Belonging to his Honour.
1649. Selden, Laws of Eng., I. xli. (1739), 65. She passed therefore as an appurtenant to her Husband.
1824. Coleridge, Aids to Refl. (1848), I. 240. The mysterious appurtenants and symbols of Redemption.
