appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We had the same sense of identity as an infant has when it becomes aware that the delightful toe and the delightful mouth where it is inserted appertain vaguely to the one ego.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)

The variations appertain, not to the ceremonies of the wedding alone, but to all the proceedings from beginning to end.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.

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

But to what portion of sovereignty does it appertain?

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.