appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The artists belonging to the ceded portion will be considered by me in this school, to which they appertain, being educated in it, and instructing other pupils in it, in their turn.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio

It is, then, in the republication of foreign works that our publishers ought to find an element of certainty, which cannot appertain to the publication of original and untried productions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various

To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

They appertain to all the duties of life, but are too numerous to be quoted here.

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