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e 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.

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.

That which appertains to a person; an appurtenance. [Obs. or R.] Shak.

Pertaining to Aaron, the first high priest of the Jews.

Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. "The aboral or abactinal area." L. Agassiz.

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

Of or pertaining to abietin; as, abietinic acid.

Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. Ab`i*o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

Pertaining to ablution.

Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.

Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. Carlyle.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

Pertaining to absence. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Pertaining to abstraction.