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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
appertain .
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Examples
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The convenience of citizens in commercial transactions is undoubtedly promoted by a supply of coin, and the right of coinage appertains to sovereignty.
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State Stephen Johnson Field 1857
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Really, with all that appertains to the sea and ships, he is an artist.
CHAPTER XXVII 2010
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Tractatus contra astronomos Oresme tries to show that astrology is “most dangerous to those of high estate, such as princes and lords to whom appertains the government of the commonwealth” (Coopland 1952, 51).
Nicole Oresme Kirschner, Stefan 2009
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QUEST: But the difference in the Chinese market is its been the sentiment and rumor appertains to what the central government is going to do.
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But to return to what appertains to my self, State − affairs being neither your, nor my province at this time.
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Estrangement no wise appertains nor cruelty austere.
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But alas! how short is all human Happiness, especially all that appertains to me; for whilst we were in this Entertainment, his
Exilius 2008
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But to return to what appertains to my self, State − affairs being neither your, nor my province at this time.
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I have told you this Transaction, that your Ladyship may not be ignorant of any thing that appertains to me, though this was an Affair utterly unknown to all the World; I mean his Proposal of Marriage; nor does any of my Poems take the least Notice, or give any Hint of it; for there was no Progress made by any personal Correspondence, nor can I persuade my-self he meant any thing but Mischief.
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One of the three was to be an expert in “the particular art, manufacture, or branch of science to which the alleged invention appertains.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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