appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
The variations appertain, not to the ceremonies of the wedding alone, but to all the proceedings from beginning to end.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.
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
But to what portion of sovereignty does it appertain?
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.