appertain

[ UK /ɐpˈɜːte‍ɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. be a part or attribute of
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How To Use appertain In A Sentence

  • Botes do not imply a common wood; they could as well appertain to field or hedgerow.
  • A wooden target with one or two darts sticking in it hung on the end wall and invited the Robin Hoods of the village to try their skill; a system of incised marks on the oaken table made sinister suggestions of shove-halfpenny; and a large open box filled with white wigs, gaudily colored robes and wooden spears, swords and regalia, crudely coated with gilded paper, obviously appertained to the puerile ceremonials of the Order of Druids. The Eye of Osiris
  • Some of them were publicly promulgated; but such as appertained to religious matters were kept secret chiefly by the pontiffs, that they might hold the minds of the people fettered by them. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
  • Under conditions such as appertain to New England and the adjacent Clovers and How to Grow Them
  • The neat, suitable uniforms of the British nurses, the appliances they use, the various inventions they have made for the sick-room, can not fail to prove to the most careless observer that the profession to which these things appertain is both honorable and scientific. Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
  • Unto the first of these, the considerations of the original of the soul, whether it be native or adventive, and how far it is exempted from laws of matter, and of the immortality thereof, and many other points, do appertain: which have been not more laboriously inquired than variously reported; so as the travail therein taken seemeth to have been rather in a maze than in The Advancement of Learning
  • Wherefore I have been considering thy desires herein, and if thou deem it meet to give a gift to Dame Elinor, and live queenlier thyself than now thou dost, then mayst thou give unto her the Castle of Greenharbour, and the six manors appertaining thereto, and withal the rights of wild-wood and fen and fell that lie thereabout. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
  • The former had at length succeeded to the extensive property of his long-lived grand-aunt, and to considerable wealth besides, which he had employed in redeeming his paternal acres (by the title appertaining to which he still chose to be designated), notwithstanding Captain Craigengelt had proposed to him a most advantageous mode of vesting the money in Law’s scheme, which was just then broached, and offered his services to travel express to The Bride of Lammermoor
  • ‘‘Prerogative’ power is, properly speaking, legal power which appertains to the Crown but not to its subjects.
  • She enjoyed the privileges appertaining to the office of chairman.
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