appurtenant, a. and n.

A. adj.

1. Belonging as a property or legal right (to); spec. in Law, constituting a property or right subsidiary to one which is more important.

c1386 CHAUCER Monk’s T. 325 Many a fair citee Apertenaunt unto the magesté Of Rome.

1393 GOWER Conf. III. 265 She by wey of covenaunt To his service apurtenaunt Was hole.

1598 KITCHIN Courts Leet (1675) 186 Common Appurtenant is for all manner of Beasts.

1654 USSHER Annals VI. (1658) 399 Two Cities of Thracia.. appurtenant to the Chersonese of Thracia.

1818 HALLAM Mid. Ages I. ii. 205 Villeins, appurtenant to the soil of the master.

1876 DIGBY Real Prop. iii. ii. §18. 155 Rights..appurtenant, or rights which are exercised over tenement B (called the praedium serviens) by the successive owners of tenement A (praedium dominans) as and being such owners.

2. Appertaining as if by right (to); proper, suited, or appropriate to; relating, pertinent.

c1386 CHAUCER Clerk’s T. 954 Euery thing, That to the feste was apertinent.

1413 LYDG. Pylgr. Sowle IV. xxxvi. (1483) 84 More apperteynent to worshyp of a worthy knyght than a traylyng gowne.

1577 HARRISON Eng. I. II. vi. 144 White meats..are now reputed as food appertinent onelie to the inferiour sort.

1661 HICKERINGILL Jamaica 91 The most promising designs..promoted with all the appertinent utensills, that policy can contrive.

1793 SMEATON Edystone L. §100 (note) Appurtenant to the subject.

1819 COLERIDGE Lett. Sept. (1836) Those temptations..most appertinent to our particular calling.

B. n. A thing appertaining; a ‘belonging.’

1483 CAXTON Gold. Leg. 276/3 The same towne with alle thappertonentes.

1599 SHAKES. Hen. V, II. ii. 87 To furnish him with all appertinents Belonging to his Honour.

1649 SELDEN Laws of Eng. I. xli. (1739) 65 She passed therefore as an appurtenant to her Husband.

1824 COLERIDGE Aids to Refl. (1848) I. 240 The mysterious appurtenants and symbols of Redemption.

I think I love the OED for it’s extremes, it’s obsessiveness, it’s near-pedantry, it gives you more detail than you need, more than most want. Wonderful. horribly bad formatting though, I spent 5 minutes fixing line breaks when I copied and pasted this. gah.