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

The general character of his face seemed to appertain to the middle period of life; but a closer inspection enabled the beholder to detect in it marks of extreme old age.

From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison

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.

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