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Meaning of PURTENANCE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pur"te*nance\, n. [Abbrev. fr. appurtenance.]
That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard,
liver, and lungs of an animal. [Obs.] `` The purtenaunces of
purgatory.'' --Piers Plowman.
      Roast [it] with fire, his head with his legs, and with
      the purtenance [Rev. Ver., inwards] thereof. --Ex. xii.
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