The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Appertain \Ap`per*tain"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Appertained; p.
pr. & vb. n. Appertaining.] [OE. apperteinen, apertenen,
OF. apartenir, F. appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad +
pertinere to reach to, belong. See Pertain.]
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment,
or custom; to relate.
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Things appertaining to this life. --Hooker.
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Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. --Lev. vi. 5.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "appertaining":
a propos, ad rem, admissible, affinitive, applicable, applying,
apposite, appropriate, apropos, associative, belonging, comparable,
comparative, congenial, connective, correlative, en rapport,
germane, in point, involving, linking, material, pertaining,
pertinent, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable,
referring, relating, relational, relative, relevant, sympathetic,
to the point, to the purpose