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AppurtenanceAppurtenance Ap*pur"te*nance, n. [OF. apurtenaunce,
apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L.
appertinere. See Appertain.]
That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an
appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing
more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation,
something belonging to another thing as principal, and which
passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other
easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse,
barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict
legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.
--Tomlins. --Bouvier. --Burrill.
Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy.
--Bacon.
The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances.
--Reid. CountenanceCountenance Coun"te*nance (koun"t?-nans), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Countenanced (-nanst); p. pr. & vb. n. Countenancing.]
1. To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
This conceit, though countenanced by learned men, is
not made out either by experience or reason. --Sir
T. Browne.
Error supports custom, custom countenances error.
--Milton.
2. To make a show of; to pretend. [Obs.]
Which to these ladies love did countenance.
--Spenser. CountenancedCountenance Coun"te*nance (koun"t?-nans), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Countenanced (-nanst); p. pr. & vb. n. Countenancing.]
1. To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
This conceit, though countenanced by learned men, is
not made out either by experience or reason. --Sir
T. Browne.
Error supports custom, custom countenances error.
--Milton.
2. To make a show of; to pretend. [Obs.]
Which to these ladies love did countenance.
--Spenser. Countenancer
Countenancer Coun"te*nan*cer (-nan-s?r), n.
One who countenances, favors, or supports.
Discountenance
Discountenance Dis*coun"te*nance, n.
Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment;
disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
He thought a little discountenance on those persons
would suppress that spirit. --Clarendon.
Discountenancer
Discountenancer Dis*coun"te*nan*cer, n.
One who discountenances; one who disfavors. --Bacon.
Purtenance
Purtenance Pur"te*nance, n. [Abbrev. fr. appurtenance.]
That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard,
liver, and lungs of an animal. [Obs.] `` The purtenaunces of
purgatory.' --Piers Plowman.
Roast [it] with fire, his head with his legs, and with
the purtenance [Rev. Ver., inwards] thereof. --Ex. xii.
9.
Separate maintenanceSeparate Sep"a*rate, p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ]
1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected;
separated; -- said of things once connected.
Him that was separate from his brethren. --Gen.
xlix. 26.
2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said
of things that have not been connected.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy,
harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. --Heb.
vii. 26.
3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate
spirit; the separate state of souls.
Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman
independent of her husband.
Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by
her husband under deed of separation. -- Sep"a*rate*ly,
adv. -- Sep"a*rate*ness, n. SustenanceSustenance Sus"te*nance, n. [OF. sustenance, sostenance,
soustenance: cf. L. sustenentia endurance. See Sustain.]
1. The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence;
as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.
2. That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions;
means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance. ``A
man of little sustenance.' --Chaucer.
For lying is thy sustenance, thy food. --Milton.
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