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appertain, v.|æpəˈteɪn|
Forms: 4–5 apertene, -teyn, 5 appertene, -artene, -urteyn(e, 5–6 appertein, -teyn(e, -teigne, 6 adpertene, apparteyne, -ertayne, 6–7 -taine, 7 -tane, -taigne, apertain, 7– appertain.
[a. OFr. aparten-ir, aperten-ir:—late L. adpertinē-re, f. ad- to, completely + pertinēre to belong to, f. per through + tenēre to hold. For change to app- see ap- prefix1.]
1. intr. To belong as parts to the whole, or as members to a family or class, and hence, to the head of the family; to be related, akin to.
c1450Merlin xxi. 373 These other tweyne..aperteyne to the kynge loot..and be Erles sones. 1578Lyte Dodoens vi. xlvii. 719 Of plummes..some apparteyne to the garden, and some are of a wilde kinde. 1611Bible Numb. xvi. 32 All the men that appertained vnto Korah. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 454 Disunited particles, which appear to have originally appertained to stones or rocks. 1843Mill Logic Introd. (1868) 7 To this science appertain the great and much debated questions.
2. To belong as a possession to.
1416Langley in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 18 I. 51 Withinne youre Churche..ther shulde be certein thyng that to yowe apperteneth. 1564Wills & Inv. N. Count. (1835) 219 Dubbletts and all other rayments apperteynyng vnto me. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. i. ii. (1743) 294 The Abbey of Deer..appertained to the Cistercian monks. 1790–1Dallas Amer. Law Rep. 71 Whether all property found in the city..should appertain to the United States. 1809Tomlins Law Dict., Appurtenances..things both corporeal and incorporeal appertaining to another thing.
3. To belong as a right or privilege to.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 155/4 This place apperteyneth to no man but to preestes. 1598Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 16 The punishment..appertaineth to the Campe-maister. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xliv. 350 Shall not all Judicature appertain to Christ? 1793T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 34 The right of raising troops..appertaining exclusively to the nation itself. 1883Law Times 20 Oct. 410/1 Until the present reign probate jurisdiction appertained solely to the Ecclesiastical Courts.
4. To belong naturally or by inherent fitness; to be suited, proper, appropriate to.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋976 To fastyng appurteynen [v.r. -ertenen, -arteyneth, -artenen, partenyth] foure thinges. c1470Hors, Shepe, & Ghoos (1822) 5 Hardynesse..apperteyneth to euery manly knyght. 1535Stewart Cron. Scotl. II. 18 How he fure adpertenis nocht to me To tell. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iv. i. 210 Do all rites, That appertaine vnto a buriall. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 13 That appellation seems more properly to appertain to the phlogiston. 1813Jane Austen Pride & Prej. x. 43 The degree of importance which is to appertain to this request.
5. To belong as an attribute, function, or affecting circumstance; to pertain, relate.
c1391Chaucer Astrol. Prol. 1 A certein nombre of conclusions apertenyng to the same instrument. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 282, I should know no Secrets That appertaine to you. 1850Daubeny Atom. The. vi. 168 The crystalline form of a body is not always determined by any unalterable property appertaining to its component atoms.
†6. impers. (chiefly in senses 3 and 4.) Obs.
c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋15 It apperteyneth [v.r. aperteneth, -tyneth, -teigneþ, perteyneth] not to a wys man, to make such sorwe. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 19 It apparteigneth to euery man..to seke science. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. 23 Further than appertaineth to the degree of a creature. 1623Lisle Test. Antiq. Pref., Unto whom it did first appertaine to exact of Priests..this profession.
†b. absol. As appertains: as is proper or due. Obs.
1524Wolsey State Papers (1836) IV. 89 To see theym conduyted in saufetye..as shall appertain. 1611Bible 1 Esdr. i. 12 They rosted the Passeouer with fire, as appertaineth.
†7. trans. (by omission of to.) To belong to, become, befit. Obs. rare.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 4838 It appertenethe a kyng for to be A kyng in verray sothe. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W.) i. clxiv. 173 a/2 It aperteynyth thy dygnytee, for to doo that this poore synfull woman askith. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas 622 The Soule..longing to behold the place that appertains her, Doth loath the bodie. 1601Dolman Fr. Acad. (1618) 657 Have attributed that to their nation which properly appertaineth not them. |