appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Graves, Kersey

He likewise carefully provided holy vessels, lamps, and other such things as appertain to the adorning of the house of God.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

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 Robinson, Frederick William

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 Smith, Arthur H.