Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An animal's viscera or internal organs, especially the heart, liver, and lungs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Appurtenance; pertinents; belongings; the inwards or intestines of an animal: especially applied to the pluck, or the heart, liver, and lungs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heart, liver, and lungs of an animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete That which pertains or belongs to something.
- noun obsolete The
heart ,liver , andlungs of ananimal .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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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‘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.
Exodus 12. 1999
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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.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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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.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868
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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'
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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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.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jpatt 2010
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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.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jpatt 2010
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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.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jpatt 2010
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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.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Hanson 2010
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