Crossword clues for belonged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belong \Be*long"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Belonged; p. pr. & vb. n. Belonging.] [OE. belongen (akin to D. belangen to concern, G. belangen to attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. i.] Note: [Usually construed with to.]
To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
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To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service.
A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids.
--Luke ix. 10.The mighty men which belonged to David.
--1 Kings i. 8. To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. ``Do not interpretations belong to God ?''
--Gen. xl. 8.-
To be suitable for; to be due to.
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.
--Heb. v. 14.No blame belongs to thee.
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To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.
Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong.
--Blackstone.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: belong)
Usage examples of "belonged".
Cardinal Acquaviva was made acquainted with these circumstances at nine this morning through the auditor you met in my room, and he promised to have the person sent away unless she belonged to his household.
I asked myself the question, how a man, who would consider it dishonourable to steal a ducat, or to pick one up in the street and keep it, knowing to whom it belonged, could reconcile it with his conscience to make an enormous profit by insuring a vessel of the safety of which he was perfectly certain, as he believed the oracle infallible.
She wondered and admired, and could scarcely believe this treasure belonged to her.
As the vendor was my negro, there could be no doubt as to whom it belonged, and who had been its master of languages.
She sent me her jewel-case, with all her diamonds and nearly all her money, all the scandalous books she possessed, and all her letters, telling me that if she did not die I was to return her the whole, but that all belonged to me if, as she thought, she should succumb to the disease.
Finally, an my enquiring the owner of a red house in the distance, he told me, much to my surprise, that it belonged to the chief of the sbirri.
It had belonged to the English ambassador, who had sold it cheap to his cook before leaving Venice.
I regarded her as a treasure which had belonged to me, and which after making me happy was with my full consent about to ensure the happiness of another.
The syndic had told me that the three young ladies belonged to respectable families, but were not rich.
The cross belonged to the Order of the Spur the Pope had given me, but as I had carefully taken the spur away it was not known to what order I belonged.
I told him that we belonged to you, and that you had not waited for us either, which put us to great trouble.
The pleasantest part about this was that the sequin I had given for the ring belonged to Dr.
I begged her to receive her from my hands, at a country house which belonged to her, where we should be occupied for some days in cabalistic ceremonies.
I went in, and the pastrycook told me that the house belonged to him, and his pretty wife, who was suckling a baby, begged me to come upstairs and see the room.
This window belonged to a room which adjoined my suite of rooms, but did not belong to it.