appal ment, tap pall ment, appalement

[Eng. appal; -ment.] The action of appalling; the state of being appalled; dismay, consternation.] "As the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appall ment to the rest."- Bacon : Henry VII. "Transient emotions 2. Terror. 3. Appal ment. 4. Consternation. 5. Dismay." - Bowring: Bentham's Table of the Springs of Action. Works, vol. 1., p. 204. ap'-pan-age, tap-an-aġe.*ăp'-pěn-aġe, * ap-ăn-nage, s. [In Dan., Ger., & Sp. apanage; Fr.apanage , tappanage, tap penn age = an appanage; Ital. appannaggio = an appendage; Law Latin appenagium , appanagium = an appanage; Med. Lat. app an are = to furnish with bread; ad panem for bread, that is, for sustenance.] L Literally : 1. Properly, lands a igned as portions to the younger sons, or sometimes the brothers of the French king, who in general took their titles from the appanages which they held Under the first two dynasties of French kings, the sons of the monarch divided his dominions among them. Afterwards the kingdom was a igned to the eldest, and appanages to the others. Then the dominant power of the latter princes was so circumscribed that their appanages could not be willed away to any one, or descend to females, but, on the failure of male i ue, were made to revert to the crown; and finally, on the 22nd of November, 1790, the power hitherto po e ed by the crown of granting appanages was taken away, and provision made for the younger sons of the royal family by grants from public funds. During the earlier period of the existence of French appanages, they were divided into royal and customary; the former being those granted to the king's brothers, and not allowed to be po e ed by, or descend to, females; and the latter granted to the king's sisters, and consequently under no such restriction. "It has been before remarked, that the French noble e became at an early period divided into the greater and the le , the former po e ing territories, apanage, sovereignty, almost independent power."Evans Crowe; Hist. France (ed. 1830), vol. i., p. 165. 2. A similar provision made for princes in other countries than France. "He became suitor for the earldom of Chester, a kind of appanage to Wales, and using to go to the king's son."- Bacon . IMG:content-0624.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia