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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appertain.

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appertain +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • And for this followeth a verse of the psalter after the said introit, such as appertaineth to the day, the which verse signifieth how we ought to put our hands jointly, praying to him devoutly, for he is made as our proper brother in taking our humanity for to show us the way of truth.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • And yet in sober sadness, Myles, 't is marvel to me how thou, born to a great name and to such observance as awaits the children of wealthy houses, and then, when hardly more than a boy, placed in authority such as appertaineth to an English army officer in time of war, how thou hast failed to become more arrogant and peremptory than thou art.

    Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims 1862

  • So she pressed him to her bosom and fell to kissing him like the billing of doves, whilst he returned her caresses with successive kisses; but preeminence appertaineth to precedence. 437 When she had made an end of kissing, she took the lute and recited these couplets,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thy property is always to have mercy; to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • Thy property is always to have mercy; to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins.

    Ash Wednesday . . . Old School Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • When the Minister heard these words, the tears sprang from his eyes in streams, and he replied, Far be it from me, O King of the Age, that I debate on that which appertaineth to the Compassionate One!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • To the office of a redeemer, that is, of one that payeth the ransom of sin, which ransom is death, it appertaineth that he was sacrificed, and thereby bore upon his own head and carried away from us our iniquities, in such sort as God had required.

    Leviathan 2007

  • To equal justice appertaineth also the equal imposition of taxes; the equality whereof dependeth not on the equality of riches, but on the equality of the debt that every man oweth to the

    Leviathan 2007

  • And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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