different between pertaining vs horrifical

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??te?n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??te?n??/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Hyphenation: per?tain?ing

Verb

pertaining

1. present participle of pertain

Noun

pertaining (plural pertainings)

1. Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
   • 1869, Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature (page 90)

     When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.

Anagrams

• repainting

English

Etymology

horrific +? -al

Adjective

horrifical (comparative more horrifical, superlative most horrifical)

1. Of or pertaining to horror.
   • 1903, Stewart Edward White, The Forest, The Outlook Company; Chapter XIII, page #181:

     If the pine woods be characterized by cathedral solemnity, and the cedars and tamaracks by certain horrifical gloom, and the popples by a silvery sunshine, and the berry-clearings by grateful heat and the homely manner of familiar birds, then the great hardwood must be known as the dwelling-place of transparent shadows, of cool green lucence, and the repository of immemorial cheerful forest tradition which the traveler can hear of, but which he is never permitted actually to know.