appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In himself are treasured all the honors, dignities, and rewards that appertain to a worthy devotee of wisdom.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
To it appertain a set of exceedingly primitive metopes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
I happen to have copies of two editions of the Nemo, which, though they are undated, must appertain to the year 1518.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.