Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging; properly relating; appurtenant.
- noun That which appropriately belongs to something else; an appurtenance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete That which belongs to something else; an appurtenant.
- adjective Belonging; appertaining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete That which belongs to something else; an
appurtenant .
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Examples
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Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger times that true valour is turned bear-herd: pregnancy is made a tapster, and hath his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings: all the other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.
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This, by canonicalle decree, in time paste was not wonte to be giuen (excepte greate necessitie soner required it) but to those that had bene scholers a space afore, to learne the thinges appertinent to Christendome.
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And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your old time, which we may name tough.
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The first wae of worshippyng God (say thei) was deuised and taught emonge theim: with the maners and ceremonies there to appertinent.
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And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your old time, which we may name tough.
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Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger times that true valour is turned bear-herd: pregnancy is made a tapster, and hath his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings: all the other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.
Act I. Scene II. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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Yorktown, and Redoubts 4 and 5, and their appertinent defences; Longstreet to the command of the centre, which extended from Dam No. 1 to the right of the lateral defences of Redoubt No. 5; and G.W. Smith to the command of the reserve.
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All the other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a Gooseberry.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger times that true valour is turned bear-herd: pregnancy is made a tapster, and hath his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings: all the other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.
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And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your old time, which we may name tough.
Love's Labour's Lost 1594
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