Appertain Definition

ăpər-tān
appertaining, appertains
verb
appertaining, appertains
To belong as a proper function or part; pertain.
Problems appertaining to social reform.
American Heritage
To belong properly as a function, part, etc.; have to do with; relate; pertain.
Webster's New World
To belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.
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Origin of Appertain

  • Middle English apperteinen, apertenen, from Old French apartenir (French appartenir), from Latin appertinere, from ad (“to”) + pertinere (“to reach to, belong”). See pertain for details.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English appertenen from Old French apartenir from Vulgar Latin appartenēre from Late Latin appertinēre ad- ad- pertinēre to belong pertain

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Appertain Sentence Examples

  • The functions of the king are those that appertain everywhere to the sovereign of a constitutional state.

  • The possible causes of this widespread tendency of the mean age of a western community to increase appertain to the subject of the movement of the population, which is dealt with below.

  • This blending of the two systems of education produced the happy result of fitting this Moslem chief in an eminent degree both for the sacerdotal functions which appertain to his spiritual position, and for those social duties of a great and enlightened leader which he was called upon to discharge by virtue of that position.

  • There is no linear covariant, since it is impossible to form a symbolic product which will contain x once and at the same time appertain to a quadratic. (v.) is the Jacobian; geometrically it denotes the bisectors of the angles between the lines ax, or, as we may say, the common harmonic conjugates of the lines and the lines x x .

  • The By Laws were revised in 1926 when the pattern of meetings which still appertain today was adopted.

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