Definition of "appendant" [ap•pend•ant]

• Affixed as an appendage. (adjective)
• Accompanying; attendant: faith and its appendant hope. (adjective)
• Belonging to a land grant as a subsidiary right in English law. (adjective)

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• "In North America, a Master Mason can branch out and join other "appendant" groups such as the Scottish Rite, the Knights Templar or the Shriners."
• "The Jesters appealed to the state board of tax appeals and were granted the property tax exemption after convincing the state that they were an appendant body of Masonry."
• "She begins her career by being involved in all the worldly accidents of a parent; she continues it by being associated in all that may environ a husband: and the difficulties arising from this doubly appendant state, are augmented by the next to impossibility, that the first dependance should pave the way for the ultimate."