appertain

[US]/ˌæpə'teɪn/
[UK]/ˌæpɚ'ten/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. pertain, be related.

Phrases & Collocations

appertain to

Example Sentences

Forestry appertains to geography.

problems appertaining to social reform.

The control of traffic appertains to the police.

the answers generally appertain to improvements in standard of service.

the institutional arrangements which appertain under the system.

the duties appertaining to his office

Real-world Examples

Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name " Mr. James Dillingham Young."

Source: O. Henry Short Stories Collection

She was a stranger to all such local gatherings, and had always held them as scarcely appertaining to her sphere.

Source: Returning Home

In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life.

Source: A Study in Scarlet by Sherlock Holmes

Or whether the rough dispelling of any bright illusion, however imaginative, depreciates the real and unexaggerated brightness which appertains to its basis, one cannot say.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 2)

In the church- yard at Sandy Hill, an humble stone marks the spot where he reposes, after having worthily performed the duties appertaining to the lowly sphere wherein God had appointed him to walk.

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

She was greatly agitated for a few moments; and the Table of the Law opposite, which now seemed to appertain to another dispensation, glistened indistinctly upon a vision still obscured by the old tears.

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part 1)

He again applied his eye to the glass, and turning his ear to the partition, listened attentively: with a subtle and eager look upon his face, that might have appertained to some old goblin.

Source: Oliver Twist (Original Version)

Here was an amazing event, little noise as it had made in the happening. Of all phenomena that he had longed to witness during his short astronomical career, those appertaining to comets had excited him most.

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part 1)

'Will it not be advisable, before we proceed on this subject, to arrange with rather more precision the degree of importance which is to appertain to this request, as well as the degree of intimacy subsisting between the parties'?

Source: Pride and Prejudice - English Audio Version (Read by Emilia Fox)

But what I wish to recall is the enormous part played by Lupin in the conduct of the case and in the incidents appertaining to the preliminary inquiry. As a matter of fact, it was he who managed the inquiry.

Source: The Mystery of 813 (Part Two)

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