appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had the same sense of identity as an infant has when it becomes aware that the delightful toe and the delightful mouth where it is inserted appertain vaguely to the one ego.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
The general character of his face seemed to appertain to the middle period of life; but a closer inspection enabled the beholder to detect in it marks of extreme old age.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
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 Frederick William Robinson
The variations appertain, not to the ceremonies of the wedding alone, but to all the proceedings from beginning to end.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith
Vocabulary lists containing appertain
Julius Caesar
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