appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would wear the cap on one ear, and walk up and down in display, with a lofty smile, and a carriage supposed to appertain to a British officer in a grand moment.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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
Wilson, the chairman of the Military Committee, sustained the amendment, saying that the Hodge case did not appertain to military matters, but to finance, to the handling of public money.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
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
Vocabulary lists containing appertain
Julius Caesar
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Much Ado About Nothing
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