appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various

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

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

But these considerations appertain to the politician; they do not lie within the scope of the present writer.

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous