Definition of Appertain. Meaning of Appertain. Synonyms of Appertain

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Definition of Appertain

Appertain
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.

Meaning of Appertain from wikipedia

- RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all [of] which ... would appertain to the legislature. [Emphasis in the original.] In the modern era, pursuant...
- accompanies something else. The word derives from Latin appertinere 'to appertain'. In a legal context, an appurtenance refers to a right, privilege, or...
- and public properties thereof ... the entire island of Taiwan and all appertaining islands ... Penghu archipelago]. Shiba, Ryōtarō (1995). Taiwan kikō:...
- attendant on the Knights Commanders and Companions', and a 'Secretary appertaining to the Knights Commanders and Companions'. The large increase in numbers...
- but by death, to appoint officers of Court, and to do everything else appertaining to the office of Sheriff; as also to apply to their own proper use the...
- . It is not their having a share in the government; that is nothing appertaining unto them. A subject and a sovereign are clean different things." He...
- Swains Island, which had been included in the list of guano islands appertaining to the United States and bonded under the Guano Islands Act, was annexed...
- and public properties thereof ... the entire island of Taiwan and all appertaining islands ... Penghu archipelago] Millward (2007), p. 190. "<untitled>"...
- that the West coasts of the main islands appertain to the Atlantic Ocean and all the narrow waters appertain to the Inner Seas, as far as the Butt of...
- Latin word is from the Ecclesiastical Gr**** Klerikos (κληρικός), meaning appertaining to an inheritance, in reference to the fact that the Levitical priests...