appurtenance

[ uh-pur-tn-uh ns ]

/ əˈpɜr tn əns /

something subordinate to another, more important thing; adjunct; accessory.

Law. a right, privilege, or improvement belonging to and passing with a principal property.

appurtenances, apparatus; instruments.

Origin of appurtenance

1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, equivalent to ap- ap-¹ + -purtenance a belonging; see purtenance

The Zulus hold that a dead body can cast no shadow, because that appurtenance departed from it at the close of life.

Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore |Charles Hardwick
Kwaque he merely accepted, as an appurtenance, as a part of the human landscape, as a chattel of Dag Daughtry.

Michael, Brother of Jerry |Jack London
The two had a simultaneous birth, but it was an appurtenance of the latter that marked the distinction and gave the names.

Atlantic Classics |Various
One other appurtenance of a dining-room is found in all early inventories—a voider.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England |Alice Morse Earle

Yet we say, "I have hope," and there hope would be in the category of Having, Appurtenance.

Logic, Inductive and Deductive |William Minto

appurtenance

/ (əˈpɜːtɪnəns) /

a secondary or less significant thing or part

(plural) accessories or equipment

property law a minor right, interest, or privilege which passes when the title to the principal property is transferred

C14: from Anglo-French apurtenance, from Old French apartenance, from apartenir to appertain