The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appertain \Ap`per*tain"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Appertained; p. pr. & vb. n. Appertaining.] [OE. apperteinen, apertenen, OF. apartenir, F. appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach to, belong. See Pertain.] To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate.
Things appertaining to this life.
--Hooker.
Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth.
--Lev. vi. 5.
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vb. (past participle of appertain English)
Usage examples of "appertained".
Miss Dunstable, with all her aptitude for mirth, and we may almost fairly say for frolic, was in no way inclined to ridicule religion or say anything which she thought appertained to it.
He hath destroyed his enemies, and he hath destroyed every evil thing which appertained to him.
I have put away utterly all the taints of evil which appertained to me [upon the earth].
I have come, I have done away the evil which was in your hearts, and I have removed the offences which appertained to you [against me].
They all appertained to this order of ideas, that she, without doubt, found explained them: disposition of character.
And also to the same appertained the anger that carried him away when, 'a propos' of their religious marriage, she spoke of confession: "Why do you think that I should be afraid to go to confession?
Yet there was nothing exceptional in his actions beyond what appertained to his time of performing them.
He had not minded the peculiarities of his birth, the vicissitudes of his life, the meteor-like uncertainty of all that related to him, because these appertained to the hero of his story, without whom there would have been no story at all for him.
The lawyers might tie up as they would on her behalf all the money, and shares, and mortgages which had belonged to the late Sir Roger, with this exception, all that had ever appertained to Greshamsbury should belong to Greshamsbury again.
A novel attraction about this young man, which a glancing stranger would know nothing of, was a rare and curious freshness of atmosphere that appertained to him, to his clothes, to all his belongings, even to the room in which he had been sitting.
It was enough that in yonder closet, opposite my dressing-table, garments said to be hers had already displaced my black stuff Lowood frock and straw bonnet: for not to me appertained that suit of wedding raiment.
To betray me more securely, to despoil me, to rob me, to give to her bastard all that lawfully appertained to me.