appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

We had the same sense of identity as an infant has when it becomes aware that the delightful toe and the delightful mouth where it is inserted appertain vaguely to the one ego.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)

But I don't like to hear that you have been "ill and blue"; that is a condition which seems more naturally to appertain to me.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

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.