appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
To it appertain a set of exceedingly primitive metopes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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
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
Win the consent of your sweetheart, after your own way; but don’t try to take advantage of a power, that does not appertain to you.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
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