appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The four questions above alluded to appertain respectively to Heredity, Utility, Isolation, and Physiological Selection.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
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 Robinson, Frederick William
To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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