Word Meanings - SCANDINAVIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -- n.
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- SWEDENBORGIAN
One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - SCANDINAVIAN
Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -- n. - DENMARK SATIN
See SATIN - SWEDENBORGIANISM
The doctrines of the Swedenborgians. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach