apanages's Usage Examples:

The Gothic princes must content themselves with honours and apanages, in which they readily acquiesced.

(1627-1637), his younger sons receiving apanages which created several cadet lines of the house, of which that of Hesse-RheinfelsRotenburg survived till 1834.

"Navarre was not reconquered for the couple as Francis had promised, but ample apanages were assigned to Marguerite, and at Nerac and Pau miniature courts were kept up, which yielded to none in Europe in the intellectual brilliancy of their frequenters.

Its boundaries were extended by the acquisition of Burgundy and the reconquest of Lusatia; disturbances of the peace became fewer and were more easily suppressed than heretofore; and three of the duchies, Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia, were made apanages of the royal house.

Navarre was not reconquered for the couple as Francis had promised, but ample apanages were assigned to Marguerite, and at Nerac and Pau miniature courts were kept up, which yielded to none in Europe in the intellectual brilliancy of their frequenters.

For appanages in ancient law see the Essai sur les apanages ou memoires historiques de leur etablissement, attributed to Du Vaucel, about 1780.

There were also serfs on the apanages affected to the use of the imperial family; these amounted to nearly three and a half millions.

Synonyms:

assignment, grant, appanage,

Antonyms:

deteriorate, forbid, take, deny,