appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His campaign against Lincoln for the senatorship does not properly appertain to the Life of Trumbull, although the latter took an active part in it.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

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

At length the right of convoking the diet was assigned to the primate, and the elective franchise was decided to appertain in an equal degree to each of the nobles, without the intervention of electors.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

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