appanage

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The most interesting feature of Langkor is an ancient temple, an appanage of the great Drophung monastery of Lhasa.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth

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)

In Tuscany, an appanage of Austria, reform bounded along.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

It was made an independent comt� of itself in 1569, and in 1663 became definitely an appanage of Orleans.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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