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appurtenant

adjective as in relative

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The second was the peril to the Chinese polity, the danger that China might become politically appurtenant to some foreign power of group of powers.

That which belongs to something else; an appurtenant.

A hundred court, especially in the west of England, was often appurtenant to the chief manor in the hundred, and passed with a grant of the manor without being expressly mentioned.

Or again, why are the goats or the swine of a tenement sent to pasture by virtue of common appurtenant, and the cows and horses by virtue of common appendant?

Katheline received her black lord and his friend in the keet, which is the wash house and the bakery appurtenant to the main dwelling.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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