English English Dictionary

Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

An appellation or title; a descriptive name.

After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.

The quality of being appellative.

Containing an appeal.

The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.

The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor.

The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime.

One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices.

See Appanage.

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.

Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.

Something appendant.

Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.

Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.