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Answer for the clue "Had reference to ", 9 letters:
pertained

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vb. (en-past of: pertain )

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Pertain \Per*tain"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pertained ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pertaining .] [OE. partenen, OF. partenir, fr. L. pertinere to stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per- , and Tenable , and cf. Appertain , Pertinent .] To belong; ...

Usage examples of pertained.

Wherefore, neither those laws nor customs instituted in the civil theology that which was pleasing to the gods, or which pertained to reality.

He decided that it was probably something that pertained to a case in court perhaps involving some criminal whom the lawyer was going to defend.

But it was also a known fact that most of the data that pertained to his legal cases was kept at his office in New York.