Crossword clues for pertained
pertained
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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To have relation or reference to something.
These words pertain unto us at this time as they pertained to them at their time.
--Latimer.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: pertain)
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.