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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Appertained

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Appertaining

[OE.

apperteinen

apertenen

, OF.

apartenir

, F.

appartenir

, fr. L.

appertinere

;

pertinere

to reach to, belong. See

To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate.

Things

appertaining

to this life.

Hooker.

Give it unto him to whom it

appertaineth

Lev. vi. 5.

Verb.

[L. ad and pertineo, to pertain, of per and teneo, to hold. Pertineo is to reach to, to extend to, hence to belong. See Tenant.]

To belong, whether by right, nature or appointment.

Give it to him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. 6.

[See Pertain.]