appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is, then, in the republication of foreign works that our publishers ought to find an element of certainty, which cannot appertain to the publication of original and untried productions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
In this way, it vaguely seems to them, they are able to save the doctrine of some one mode of origin as appertaining to species, which need not "necessarily" appertain to any other taxonomic division.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
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.
Exercise the rights and perform the duties which appertain to her with regard to the legitimate and acknowledged natural children she may have had by another, and with relation to the property of the same.
From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe
Vocabulary lists containing appertain
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