Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An animal's viscera or internal organs, especially the heart, liver, and lungs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Appurtenance; pertinents; belongings; the inwards or intestines of an animal: especially applied to the pluck, or the heart, liver, and lungs.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete That which pertains or belongs to something.
- n. obsolete The heart, liver, and lungs of an animal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.
Etymologies
- Shortened from appurtenance. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pertenaunce, purtenaunce, adjunct, from Old French partenance, pertinence, from partenir, to pertain; see pertain. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“‘May he be damn’d in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and purtenance, down to the very stomach!”
“The garden is best to be square," was Lord Bacon's rule; "the form that men like in general is a square, though roundness be _forma perfectissima_," was Lawson's rule; and this form was chosen because the garden was considered to be a purtenance and continuation of the house, designed so as strictly to harmonize with the architecture of the building.”
“Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof”
“Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.”
“| Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.”
“9. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.”
“02: 012: 009 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.”
“9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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