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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375-1416
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Purtenaunce, -tenanz, n. [ME and e.m.E. purtenance (Manning), -aunce (1432), purtinaunce (Piers Polowman), appurtenance, animal' ‘inwards’, AF *purtinaunce, for OF parten-, pertinance, Pertinence n., cf. Portenance n., and ME and e.m.E. appurtena(u)nce, AF apurtenance (12th c. in Littré) of which it may have been taken as an aphetic form.] A pertinent of landed property; pertinents, collectively. = Pertinence n. —1312) 13.. Facs. Nat. MSS II xix (
Totam terram suam de Balgarvi cum omnibus pertinenciis [gl. purtenauncis] 1416 Red. Bk. Grandtully I 186*.
Landys … with thair purtenanz