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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pertain \Per*tain"\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "pertaining": 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
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