appanage

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Thus I know that the boy is not, as our minor humorists would have us believe, a mere flourish and gaudy appanage to the plumber's autocratically assumed grandeur.

From The Comforts of Home by Bergengren, Ralph

A systematic appeal to the deeper powers in man—conceived with the generality with which I have here conceived it—cannot remain a mere appanage of medical practice.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

An appanage of the Crown, they had been called so from the days of William the Conqueror.

From The Pagan's Cup by Hume, Fergus

For the internal regulation of the conscience it had erected the institution of auricular confession, which by this time had become almost the exclusive appanage of the priesthood.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles