appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Caroline Frances Cornwallis
To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
And nobody knew better than Chaucer the respective merits of the Months, and the peculiar qualities and characteristics which appertain to each.
From Mirror of the Months by Peter George Patmore
Not only do the plain doctrines appertain to us; but all the parables and miracles with which the history of Christ abounds, have their final reference to man.
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
Vocabulary lists containing appertain
Julius Caesar
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