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appertain

[ap-er-teyn] / ˌæp ərˈteɪn /


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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Romanes, George John

And then it should be borne in mind, that our controversy does not appertain so much to the character as to the origin of the Christian religion.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

But these considerations appertain to the politician; they do not lie within the scope of the present writer.

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous

The idea of a life beyond this one seems also to appertain to normal humanity.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe




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