appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
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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.
They appertain to all the duties of life, but are too numerous to be quoted here.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
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
To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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