appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
And nobody knew better than Chaucer the respective merits of the Months, and the peculiar qualities and characteristics which appertain to each.
From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore
In this way, it vaguely seems to them, they are able to save the doctrine of some one mode of origin as appertaining to species, which need not "necessarily" appertain to any other taxonomic division.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
And the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various
The general character of his face seemed to appertain to the middle period of life; but a closer inspection enabled the beholder to detect in it marks of extreme old age.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
Vocabulary lists containing appertain
Julius Caesar
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