appertain
pronunciation
How to pronounce appertain in British English:
UK [ˌæpəˈteɪn]
How to pronounce appertain in American English:
US [ˌæpərˈteɪn]
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- Verb:
- be a part or attribute of
Word Origin
- appertain (v.)
- late 14c., from Anglo-French apartenir, Old French apartenir (12c.) "be related to; be incumbent upon," from Late Latin appertinere "to pertain to," from ad- "to, completely" (see ad-) + pertinere "to belong to" (see pertain). To belong as parts to the whole, or as members to a family or class. Related: Appertained; appertaining.
Example
- 1. Sincere letter club together : continual establish play a long with develop associator appertain .
- 2. The duties and privilege appertain to the post have never is officially stated .
- 3. But if the lord make a new thing , and the earth open her mouth , and swallow them up , with all that appertain unto them , and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the lord .
- 4. But if the lord make a new thing , and the earth open her mouth , and swallow them up , with all that [ appertain ] unto them , and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the lord .
- 5. Abstract : this paper , by the consolidated method of history and logic , summarized the process of technological formation and development , and analysed the concrete configuration and its dialectic appertain of technological lengthways and landscape movement from lengthways and landscape orientations .