appertain to
Example Sentences
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
The theory of equality is good, because it negatives the interference of rank and wealth in matters that appertain to the intellect or to the moral sense.
From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
A land of things beyond the present, and yet which could never appertain to any future, map it as she might in the brain that went to work so busily.
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William
The bellows must always be near at hand, the tongs not out of reach; both of them more sensible implements than those that usually appertain to coals.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest
To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
