appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The artists belonging to the ceded portion will be considered by me in this school, to which they appertain, being educated in it, and instructing other pupils in it, in their turn.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio
Wilson, the chairman of the Military Committee, sustained the amendment, saying that the Hodge case did not appertain to military matters, but to finance, to the handling of public money.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
He likewise carefully provided holy vessels, lamps, and other such things as appertain to the adorning of the house of God.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
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