appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His duties are probably more varied than those that appertain to any other sort of engineering.

From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Hoskin, Arthur J.

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

Planks, in a political sense, are the several principles which appertain to a party; platform is the collection of such principles.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

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