— appendance, appendancy, appendence, appendency , n.
/euh pen"deuhnt/ , adj.
1. attached or suspended; annexed.
2. associated as an accompaniment or consequence: the salary appendant to a position.
3. Law. pertaining to a legal appendant.
n.
4. a person or thing attached or added.
5. Law. any subordinate possession or right historically annexed to or dependent on a greater one and automatically passing with it, as by sale or inheritance.
Also, appendent .
[ 1350-1400; ME ap ( p ) endaunt (in legal sense) apendre to belong (to), befit appendere, equiv. to L ap- AP- 1 + pendere to hang (intransit.); later senses by assoc. with APPEND ]