appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

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.

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