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, and lungs of an animal.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English pertenaunce, purtenaunce, adjunct, from Old French partenance, pertinence, from partenir, to pertain; see pertain.]

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Shortened from appurtenance.

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Examples

  • ‘May he be damn’d in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and purtenance, down to the very stomach!

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • ‘May he be damn’d in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and purtenance, down to the very stomach!

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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

  • '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

  • | 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

  • | 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

  • 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

  • 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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