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 the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various
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
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
The artists belonging to the ceded portion will be considered by me in this school, to which they appertain, being educated in it, and instructing other pupils in it, in their turn.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio
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