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appertain

[ap-er-tayn] / ˌæp ərˈteɪn /


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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Win the consent of your sweetheart, after your own way; but don’t try to take advantage of a power, that does not appertain to you.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

I happen to have copies of two editions of the Nemo, which, though they are undated, must appertain to the year 1518.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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




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