noun anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
2. appendant ·noun a inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
3. appendant ·vt hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.
4. appendant ·vt appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time;
said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, ·etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.