appertain to
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The person produced as mine in the playhouse, last winter, did in no wise appertain to me.
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
Aphorisms came into being as the result of experience, whereas axioms are self-evident truths, requiring no proof, and appertain to pure reason.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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
There was considered something of style to appertain to it above the other Universities; and we looked down upon a Heidelberger or a Halle man as only something above a 'Philister.'
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James