English
Etymology
Old English apperteinen, apertenen, Old French apartenir, French appartenir, from Latin appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach to, belong. See Pertain.
Pronunciation
WEAE IPA|/æp.��ten/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪn|-eɪn
Verb
en-verb
- To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate.
Quotations
<blockquote>
In this great stretch of country
there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to
life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement
upon the dull, grey earth — above all, there is absolute
silence. Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in
all that mighty wilderness; nothing but silence — complete
and heart-subduing silence.
<BR>
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet
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