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Pertaining definitions

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pertain Per*tain", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pertained; p. pr. & vb. n. Pertaining.] [OE. partenen, OF. partenir, fr. L. pertinere to stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, and Tenable, and cf. Appertain, Pertinent.] 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. --Hayward. 2. To have relation or reference to something. These words pertain unto us at this time as they pertained to them at their time. --Latimer.

Moby Thesaurus

a propos, ad rem, admissible, affinitive, appertaining, applicable, applying, apposite, appropriate, apropos, associative, belonging, comparable, comparative, congenial, connective, correlative, en rapport, germane, in point, involving, linking, material, pertinent, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable, referring, relating, relational, relative, relevant, sympathetic, to the point, to the purpose