appertain
verbUS /ˌæpɚˈteɪn/
Etymology From Middle English apperteinen, apertenen, borrowed from Old French apartenir (French appartenir), from Late Latin appertinēre, from ad (“to”) + Latin pertinēre (“to reach to, belong”). More at pertain.
1
To belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.
- Another issue that appertains to the policy under discussion.
- McInnis reached down and gently raised the old man's head to face him. "Edwin Falkirk, I hereby relieve you of the Directorship of Site-43 under my authority as Administrator of the SCP Foundation. Your security clearance credentials will be revoked in full, and all privileges appertaining to your position are rescinded."2023 October 8, HarryBlank, “Taking the Lead”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 26 May 2024:
2
To belong as a part, right, possession, attribute, etc.
- Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society., volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217:
- 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.1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, “On the Great Alkali Plain”, in A Study in Scarlet, New York: D. Appleton and Company, published 1902, The Country of the Saints, page 115:
- Synonyms
- pertain
- Antonyms
- be irrelevant
- Derived terms
- appertainment, unappertaining
- Related terms
- appurtenance, pertain, pertinence, pertinent