Appertain - What does it mean?
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To belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.
* {{quote-book, year= 1551
, year_published= 1888
, author=
, by=
, title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society.
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=JmpXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217
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, section= Part 1
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, publisher= Clarendon Press
, location= Oxford
, editor=
, volume= 1
, page= 217
, passage= Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
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* {{quote-book, year= 1886
, year_published= 1902
, author= (Arthur Conan Doyle)
, by=
, title= (A Study in Scarlet)
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=CUnIjAWSCmIC&pg=PA115
, original=
, chapter= On the Great Alkali Plain
, section= The Country of the Saints
, isbn=
, edition=
, publisher= D. Appleton and Company
, location= New York
, editor=
, volume=
, page= 115
, passage= 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.
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