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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pertain
verb
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▪ Because there are some religions that believe in nonmedical spiritual healing, most states provide special laws pertaining to them.
▪ Clinger also issued Thomason a subpoena demanding any records pertaining to the travel office case.
▪ Current legislation is not likely to pertain much longer, however.
▪ Our results pertain to a sample of 101 subjects, in many of whom the birth weight was obtained by maternal recall.
▪ The Marxian capitalist has infinite shrewdness or cunning on everything except matters pertaining to his own ultimate survival.
▪ These modifications pertain to improvements in the inspection and operation of locking and vent mechanisms.
▪ They pertain to all possible effects that could have occurred, both positive and negative, anticipated and unanticipated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pertain

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.]

  1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.

    Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them.
    --Hayward.

  2. To have relation or reference to something.

    These words pertain unto us at this time as they pertained to them at their time.
    --Latimer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pertain

early 14c., from Old French partenir "to belong to" and directly from Latin pertinere "to reach, stretch; relate, have reference to; belong, be the right of; be applicable," from per- "through" (see per) + tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Related: Pertained; pertaining.

Wiktionary
pertain

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to belong 2 (context intransitive English) to relate, to refer, be relevant to

WordNet
pertain
  1. v. have to do with or be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" [syn: refer, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on]

  2. be a part or attribute of [syn: appertain]

Wikipedia
Pertain

Pertain is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.

Usage examples of "pertain".

As there is a kind of commutation in favors, when, to wit, a man gives thanks for a favor received, so also is there commutation in the matter of offenses, when, on account of an offense committed against another, a man is either punished against his will, which pertains to vindictive justice, or makes amends of his own accord, which belongs to penance, which regards the person of the sinner, just as vindictive justice regards the person of the judge.

Other things, which pertain to the understanding and hence to the thinking, called matters of faith, are provided everyone in accord with his life, for they are accessory to life and if they have been given precedence, do not become living until they are subsidiary.

Are you willing to obtain and hand over to Delegate Efrem Sontag all information pertaining to the allomorph trait eradication and demiclone procedures developed by Galapharma for the Haluk, including details and locations of all clandestine demiclone labs that were or are now in operation, plus the total number of human-Haluk demiclones produced there?

Sometimes anger follows reason, and is, as it were, its instrument, and then the operation, which pertains to justice, is not attributed to anger but to reason.

If the things pertaining to defect were attributed to God in His Divine Nature, it would be a blasphemy, since it would be derogatory to His honor.

This very glory which Christ, while praying, besought for Himself, pertained to the salvation of others according to Rom.

From all these instances it is clear that Christ, when He willed, changed the minds of men by His Divine power, not only by the bestowal of righteousness and the infusion of wisdom, which pertains to the end of miracles, but also by outwardly drawing men to Himself, or by terrifying or stupefying them, which pertains to the miraculous itself.

The physiologist might assert the necessary seclusion of physiological experimentation, or he might construe the question in a literal sense as pertaining merely to the locking of his inner door.

Yet another impediment to the legal repression of any cruelty pertaining to animal experimentation is one which we all deplore, even though no remedy appears in sight.

If Marle came, Cardona was to question him on every angle that pertained to smuggled jewels.

Thus it is that whatsoever be their utterance, whether it pertain to the realm of Divinity, Lordship, Prophethood, Messengership, Guardianship, Apostelship or Servitude, all is true, beyond the shadow of a doubt.

He therefore appeared before Aunt Chloe with a touchingly subdued, resigned expression, like one who has suffered immeasurable hardships in behalf of a persecuted fellow-creature,--enlarged upon the fact that Missis had directed him to come to Aunt Chloe for whatever might be wanting to make up the balance in his solids and fluids,--and thus unequivocally acknowledged her right and supremacy in the cooking department, and all thereto pertaining.

All the rules pertaining to pretrial discovery had taken the fun out of practicing law.

HIV protease and the human proteases that are essential to the digestive process, resulting in a list of ill effects every bit as daunting as that pertaining to AZT, including kidney and liver failure, strokes, heart attacks, and gross deformities.

Returning to his desk, Salter began to thumb through a sheaf of typewritten sheets that pertained to the ancient Mayan language.