appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Not only do the plain doctrines appertain to us; but all the parables and miracles with which the history of Christ abounds, have their final reference to man.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

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

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

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