appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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These are the chief appearances of the early part of this month which appertain exclusively to the Spring.
From Mirror of the Months by Patmore, Peter George
The artists belonging to the ceded portion will be considered by me in this school, to which they appertain, being educated in it, and instructing other pupils in it, in their turn.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio
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
Exercise the rights and perform the duties which appertain to her with regard to the legitimate and acknowledged natural children she may have had by another, and with relation to the property of the same.
From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.