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appertain

[ap-er-teyn] / ˌæp ərˈteɪn /


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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

We had the same sense of identity as an infant has when it becomes aware that the delightful toe and the delightful mouth where it is inserted appertain vaguely to the one ego.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)

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 Romanes, George John

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




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