appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first of these thus issued appertain entirely to the system of the Empire of Charlemagne.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
They think that “ordinances so liable to abuse, and the cause of so many divisions and persecutions, cannot truly appertain to the law of God.”
From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances
Win the consent of your sweetheart, after your own way; but don’t try to take advantage of a power, that does not appertain to you.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
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
Vocabulary lists containing appertain
Julius Caesar
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