English edit

Etymology edit

appertain +‎ -ment

Noun edit

appertainment (countable and uncountable, plural appertainments)

  1. (obsolete) That which appertains or belongs to a person; an appurtenance; trappings.
    • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 2, scene 3, lines 78–79:
      He shent our messengers, and we lay by / Our appertainments, visiting of him.
    • 2016 [2013], Bernd Klauer, Reiner Manstetten, Thomas Petersen, Johannes Schiller, “Material stocks”, in Kathleen Cross, transl., Sustainability and the Art of Long-Term Thinking, translation of Die Kunst, langfristig zu denken : Wege zur Nachhaltigkeit [The art of thinking long-term : paths to sustainability] (in German), →ISBN, 4.3.1. Material sets and stocks, page 44:
      The property of appertainment of a set is therefore the property which, by definition, has to be given in every element of the set.