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Pertin-, Pertenence, -ens, n. Also: pertyn-, pertan-; partin-, parten- and -ense, -ance, -ans; -ench, -anche. [Late ME. and e.m.E. pertinence (a 1450), -enance (1525), -ynens (1552), OF. partenance, -inance, pertinence, f. partenant, Pertinent n. and a. Cf. also Purtenaunce n.]Because of the close resemblance between scribal c and t, there is possible formal ambiguity between pertinence and certain forms of Pertinent n., esp. in the plural.

1. An adjunct or appendage.a. A pertinent of real property. = Pertinent n. a.Chiefly coll. (or ? uninfl. pl.).coll. 1379 MacRae Early Sc. Texts No. 1.
Throch this presens me … Lord of Bonyngtoun wyth the pertynense haf [etc.] 1425 (1426) Reg. Great S. 11/1. 1431 Liber Melros II. 523.
The said landis with the pertinens 1434–5 Reg. St. A. 424.
Pertinance 14.. Reg. Maj. c. 48.
I ask that land as the pertinens of that lande that to me was nemmyt in dowry 1447 Rec. Earld. Orkney 189.
Fowr markis wortht off lande … with all pertynance thar till langande 1480 Ib. 332.
With all fredomis profeits and richtwis pertinans under erth and abov 1480 Acta Conc. I. 58/2.
The said landis ar nocht of the propirte nor pertinence of the landis of Raucheburne 1485 Breadalbane Doc. No. 22. 1492 Reg. Cupar A. I. 241.
Grantit … our bog myl within our grange of the Kers with the land multure, ryng beyr and all othir pertinence 1512–3 Reg. Privy S. I. 375/1.
Ane land and tenement foreland and bakland with the pertinence … liand in the burgh of Edinburgh 1511–2 Ib. 362/1. 1549 Rec. Earld. Orkney 237.
Pertinense 1553 Lanark B. Rec. 29.
To leif the said dowcot and yard with the pertynens at the end of the … takis 1572 Boyd Fam. P. No. 60 (30 May).
Pertynence(b) 1400 Charter (Honess Doc. No. 1, Reg.H.) MS.
My landis … with mill and multuris … and al rychwysse pertenense … als wele noucht nemmyt as nemmyd 1407 Charter (Reg. H.) C.O. No. 32.
The forsaide landys and mylle witht thair pertenance 1426 Coldstream Chart. 43.
Pertenans 1438 Reg. St. A. 430.
The pertenence that I want of the lordschip of Kyninmond; in the first Monniacky medew … item [etc.] 1550 Reg. Cupar A. II. 92.
Perte nens(c) c1420 Wynt. viii. 7098.
All Gaskone wyth the pertanance [C. portynance] To be seysit and westyte(d) 1489 Wemyss Chart. 113.
Of thair saidis landis … with thare partenance 1545 Reg. Episc. Morav. App. 398.
Partenens(e) 1524 Selkirk B. Ct. MS. fol. 106 b.
Pertinanche 1527 Ib. fol. 125 b.
With all and syndry commodites [etc.] … and rychtuis pertenench 1535–6 Ib. (ed.) 165.
Anent our fredome of our burgh with the pertinenchplur. 1388 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 294.
All his land … with the pertenances of it 1405 Ib. 200. 1460 Newburgh B. Ct. 3 a.
Wytht al rychtwys pertenensis pertenand … to the saidis tua rudis of land 1496 Acta Conc. II. 30. 1524 Selkirk B. Ct. MS. fol. 106 b.
The said rygis and thair pertinenchissing. 1482 Acta Aud. 98/2.
That the multure of the corne … is a pertinence of the saide landis

b. A subsidiary proposition. — 1456 Hay I. 225/32.
For the law sais that quhen a thing principale is grantit all the nedefull pertinence till it is grauntit

c. Foods or other accompaniments to be taken with a main dish. — 1509 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 57.
To pay him yerlie … a dusane of caponis with the pertinence to be ettin in his hous 1572 Sat. P. xxxiii. 398.
Peirtryks and pleuers pyping on the speit … With gude quhyte wyne and all the partinence — 1589 Douglas Corr. 241.
To mak prowysioun boyth in wyne and aill and vther pertinences for twa or thre dayis at leist

d. Accessories, collectively; fittings. — 1531 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 114.
Lokis and all pertinence pertening to the said almery 1571 Misc. Spald. C. II. 79.
xxiiij pleuchis with thar … pertinence 1672 Edinb. Test. LXXIV. 205 b.
My house knok … with the caice and haill pertinance thairof 1686 Kingarth Par. Rec. 153.
The coupl of the old manse to be taken down with its pertinence

2. Belongings, collectively. 1490 Irland Mir. I. 91/35.
That the man offerit … of his awne propir pertinence sa mekile of waloure as the waloure of the thing