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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

But these considerations appertain to the politician; they do not lie within the scope of the present writer.

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous

He likewise carefully provided holy vessels, lamps, and other such things as appertain to the adorning of the house of God.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede

At length the right of convoking the diet was assigned to the primate, and the elective franchise was decided to appertain in an equal degree to each of the nobles, without the intervention of electors.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

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 Horace White




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