appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
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His duties are probably more varied than those that appertain to any other sort of engineering.
From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. Hoskin
To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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 Hyacinthe Ringrose
The four questions above alluded to appertain respectively to Heredity, Utility, Isolation, and Physiological Selection.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
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