appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But these considerations appertain to the politician; they do not lie within the scope of the present writer.

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous

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

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

It was not perhaps, quite so fascinating to these two people with what we call conscience and the possession of what makes the greatness of humanity, whether it appertain to man or woman.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley