appanage
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Francis died on the 10th of June 1584, and the vacant appanage definitively became part of the royal domain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Although the hereditary title of Count was the appanage of this rank, he never took it up.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
He was the eldest grandson of Egbert, the first "King of the English," and held, accordingly, the under-kingship of Kent, at that time the usual appanage of the heir-apparent.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
He has an appanage, or territory, assigned to him to "eat," like other princes of the Empire.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
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 Henry Charles Lea
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