appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Planks, in a political sense, are the several principles which appertain to a party; platform is the collection of such principles.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

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

These are the chief appearances of the early part of this month which appertain exclusively to the Spring.

From Mirror of the Months by Patmore, Peter George