appertain

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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 Patmore, Peter George

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

His duties are probably more varied than those that appertain to any other sort of engineering.

From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Hoskin, Arthur J.

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