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appertain to

VERB
bear on
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
be immaterial be irrelevant be of no consequence




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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

A land of things beyond the present, and yet which could never appertain to any future, map it as she might in the brain that went to work so busily.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson

What does a physician know of symphony; books and study appertain to that, and no little dreampeters.

From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. by Ludwig Tieck

If you ask, what are the ten evil acts; there are three which appertain to the body: murder, theft, and impurity. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc


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