appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Planks, in a political sense, are the several principles which appertain to a party; platform is the collection of such principles.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

It was not perhaps, quite so fascinating to these two people with what we call conscience and the possession of what makes the greatness of humanity, whether it appertain to man or woman.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

Aphorisms came into being as the result of experience, whereas axioms are self-evident truths, requiring no proof, and appertain to pure reason.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

To it appertain a set of exceedingly primitive metopes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various