appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this way, it vaguely seems to them, they are able to save the doctrine of some one mode of origin as appertaining to species, which need not "necessarily" appertain to any other taxonomic division.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
They think that “ordinances so liable to abuse, and the cause of so many divisions and persecutions, cannot truly appertain to the law of God.”
From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances
His campaign against Lincoln for the senatorship does not properly appertain to the Life of Trumbull, although the latter took an active part in it.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
But to what portion of sovereignty does it appertain?
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
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Julius Caesar
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