appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They think that “ordinances so liable to abuse, and the cause of so many divisions and persecutions, cannot truly appertain to the law of God.”

From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances

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

Wilson, the chairman of the Military Committee, sustained the amendment, saying that the Hodge case did not appertain to military matters, but to finance, to the handling of public money.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

The idea of a life beyond this one seems also to appertain to normal humanity.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe