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A. adj.
1. Belonging as a property or legal right (to); spec. in Law, constituting a property or right subsidiary to one which is more important.
c1386 CHAUCER Monk’s T. 325 Many a fair citee Apertenaunt unto the magesté Of Rome.
1393 GOWER Conf. III. 265 She by wey of covenaunt To his service apurtenaunt Was hole.
1598 KITCHIN Courts Leet (1675) 186 Common Appurtenant is for all manner of Beasts.
1654 USSHER Annals VI. (1658) 399 Two Cities of Thracia.. appurtenant to the Chersonese of Thracia.
1818 HALLAM Mid. Ages I. ii. 205 Villeins, appurtenant to the soil of the master.
1876 DIGBY Real Prop. iii. ii. §18. 155 Rights..appurtenant, or rights which are exercised over tenement B (called the praedium serviens) by the successive owners of tenement A (praedium dominans) as and being such owners.
2. Appertaining as if by right (to); proper, suited, or appropriate to; relating, pertinent.
c1386 CHAUCER Clerk’s T. 954 Euery thing, That to the feste was apertinent.
1413 LYDG. Pylgr. Sowle IV. xxxvi. (1483) 84 More apperteynent to worshyp of a worthy knyght than a traylyng gowne.
1577 HARRISON Eng. I. II. vi. 144 White meats..are now reputed as food appertinent onelie to the inferiour sort.
1661 HICKERINGILL Jamaica 91 The most promising designs..promoted with all the appertinent utensills, that policy can contrive.
1793 SMEATON Edystone L. §100 (note) Appurtenant to the subject.
1819 COLERIDGE Lett. Sept. (1836) Those temptations..most appertinent to our particular calling.
B. n. A thing appertaining; a ‘belonging.’
1483 CAXTON Gold. Leg. 276/3 The same towne with alle thappertonentes.
1599 SHAKES. Hen. V, II. ii. 87 To furnish him with all appertinents Belonging to his Honour.
1649 SELDEN Laws of Eng. I. xli. (1739) 65 She passed therefore as an appurtenant to her Husband.
1824 COLERIDGE Aids to Refl. (1848) I. 240 The mysterious appurtenants and symbols of Redemption.
I think I love the OED for it’s extremes, it’s obsessiveness, it’s near-pedantry, it gives you more detail than you need, more than most want. Wonderful. horribly bad formatting though, I spent 5 minutes fixing line breaks when I copied and pasted this. gah.
- William T. Vollmann’s Rising up and rising down (abbridged), page 2.
I love it when I read a book, and at the top of page 2 I find a word I don’t know and have to go look it up. Usually means it’s a book I’ll never finish and a word I’ll likely never see again.
@Outshine on twitter, quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008), Russian Novelist, chronicler of the Gulags in Soviet Russia.
Well, Solzhenitsyn, I loved your novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich but this quote doesn’t agree with me at all. Happiness sneaks up on you when you’re not looking. It’s a thing that bubbles up from inside and around you, it doesn’t seem to me to be a thing that I can turn on and off. I can decide to not let my unhappiness suck me in, let depression pull me down into it or I can declair that the actions of others or external events will not be allowed to impinge on my mood but it doesn’t seem to me that you can make a choice to be happy, you either are or are not, like in the same way that you’re tired: you can do things to help bring about that state, but I don’t think being in a state of happiness or sadness is in an induvidual’s power. You think, I’m sitting in my room, I’ll go outside, that’ll cheer me up, but you can’t decide that the day will be pleasent for you and that you will smile and enjoy it. There’s a level of pretension I can’t get over in deciding to “be happy” and to be immplacable in your happiness. I’m not articulating this well here, it’s something I think about fairly often, that cyclical work of happiness and not-happiness. Enough of this.
-Scotland on Sunday
from a blurb on Amazon listed under his book With Borges.
only 77 pages? aww. I want it to be 700.
Borges “The Seret Miracle”
holy shit, do I love Borges. I think that’s the best reference question ever.
alberto magnuel, the library at night
i have been meaning to read this for a while, and only recently remembered to put it on hold here at the library. i’ve only just started reading, but i can tell this book and i are going to get along quite well.
(via chessieann)
I read this in July, came across is at the excellent aworkinglibrary.com. It got me back into Borges, which I am still enjoying greatly and Manguel makes a great case for the library being a really essential part of the intellectual head-space of people as well as essential in a huge number of ways. The library’s a gem and the book is holding it up to a flame and rotating it slowly in the hand, admiring it’s facets. I really just love this book, it made me really sure of my decision to go to library school. One of the first I’d grab if the building were on fire. [oh god horribe nightmare.]
this is what came up after the horsemaskmushroomnudity video.
look, I’m not even going to link to the video…
If you google “japan mushrooms techno horse mask” then it’s the second result, but, it’s on of those things that i think really screws with people who haven’t played “OH GOD I CAN’T UNSEE THAT” on the Internet.
my tumbularity is at unprecedented levels: 41. christ. I think I’ve spent too much time on this service the last few days. whatever, I’ve enjoyed it. horray cool shit. I have to quote more often from what I’m reading.
Goodnight Internet, expect little from me since I’ll be driving all day tomorrow and Sunday and having so much fun I’ll puke on Saturday. [not really going to puke]
![oh weird shit, how I love you.
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