appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
At length the right of convoking the diet was assigned to the primate, and the elective franchise was decided to appertain in an equal degree to each of the nobles, without the intervention of electors.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
And then it should be borne in mind, that our controversy does not appertain so much to the character as to the origin of the Christian religion.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
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