Ăp'pan-aġe, n.

n. [Fr. appanage, apanage, appennage, It. appannaggio, Sp. apanage, L. Lat. appanagium, apanagium, apanamentum, from appanare, to furnish with bread, to provision, from Lat. ad and panis, bread.]

1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.
2. Means of nourishing; sustenance. “Wealth . . . the appanage of wit.” Swift.