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appertain

[ap-er-tayn] / ˌæp ərˈteɪn /


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

From Time Magazine Archive

And the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various

To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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 Johann Arndt

And then it should be borne in mind, that our controversy does not appertain so much to the character as to the origin of the Christian religion.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves


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