purtenance
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun Appurtenance; pertinents; belongings; the inwards or intestines of an animal: especially applied to the pluck, or the heart, liver, and lungs.
Examples
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‘May he be damn’d in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and purtenance, down to the very stomach!
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Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
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"The garden is best to be square," was Lord Bacon's rule; "the form that men like in general is a square, though roundness be _forma perfectissima_," was Lawson's rule; and this form was chosen because the garden was considered to be a purtenance and continuation of the house, designed so as strictly to harmonize with the architecture of the building.
Note
The word 'purtenance' is an abbreviation of 'appurtenance'.
