appanage

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.

The unsettled dispute about the appanage had been aggravated by the struggle over their mother's will.

The Romans retained it for as long a period as the Phœnicians; and after being ravaged by Goths and Vandals, it was for three and a half centuries an appanage of the crown of Byzantium.

A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

Dunois reconquered for them their hereditary rights, the extensive appanages of the house of Orleans.