appanage
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When Napoleon finds his brother obdurate he makes Eug�ne Prince of Venice, and his eldest daughter Princess of Bologna, with a large appanage.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
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
The continent was an appanage of his crown; it did not form an integral part of Spain; America and Spain were connected solely through their common allegiance to him.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Dawson, Thomas C.
Acre was added to acre and estate to estate,141 often by the dangerous expedient of borrowed money, until Buckinghamshire seemed likely to become the appanage of the family.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
It must be borne in mind, however, that Ceylon is an appanage of the British Crown, and it is not an independent, self-supporting colony.
