appertain to
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I don't like to hear that you have been "ill and blue"; that is a condition which seems more naturally to appertain to me.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
According to the treaty we have sworn With Saladin, he must protect our creed With all the privileges, all the rights That appertain to our most holy faith.
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
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
In this way, it vaguely seems to them, they are able to save the doctrine of some one mode of origin as appertaining to species, which need not "necessarily" appertain to any other taxonomic division.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
