appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Reid, Mayne

A land of things beyond the present, and yet which could never appertain to any future, map it as she might in the brain that went to work so busily.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William

And then it should be borne in mind, that our controversy does not appertain so much to the character as to the origin of the Christian religion.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

And the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various