Word Meanings - APPERTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach

Additional info about word: APPERTAIN

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. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach to, belong.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPERTAIN)

• Beseem
• Befit
• suit
• belong
• appertain

Related words: (words related to APPERTAIN)

• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• BEFIT
  To be suitable to; to suit; to become. That name best befits thee. Milton.
• BESEEM
  Literally: To appear or seem for to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• BESEEMLY
  Fit; suitable; becoming. In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• BEFITTING
  Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.
• APPERTAIN
  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. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• MISBESEEM
  To suit ill.
• UNBESEEM
  To be unbecoming or unsuitable to; to misbecome.
• UNBESEEMING
  Unbecoming; not befitting. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ness, n.
• MISBEFITTING
  No befitting.
• SUBELONGATE
  Not fully elongated; somewhat elongated.