appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Patmore, Peter George
The general character of his face seemed to appertain to the middle period of life; but a closer inspection enabled the beholder to detect in it marks of extreme old age.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
But I don't like to hear that you have been "ill and blue"; that is a condition which seems more naturally to appertain to me.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
Win the consent of your sweetheart, after your own way; but don’t try to take advantage of a power, that does not appertain to you.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
Vocabulary lists containing appertain
Julius Caesar
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