Precinct
['priːsɪŋ(k)t] or ['prisɪŋkt]
Definition
(noun.) a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes.
Editor: Segre--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.
(n.) A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.
(n.) A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Limit, confine, bound, boundary, border, frontier, marches.[2]. District, territorial division.
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Definition
n. limit or boundary of a place: a district or division within certain boundaries: limit of jurisdiction or authority.
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Examples
- Sir Leicester looks on at this invasion of the sacred precincts with an icy stare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hope and love had quitted that little tenement, for Robert seemed to have deserted its precincts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It must have been he whose men you have heard battling within the precincts of the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was eleven o'clock when he came in, though he had not been further than the precincts of the garden. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was a toilsome journey up-stairs to his room, and he re-entered its dark solitary precincts in unutterable misery. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The shape standing before me had never crossed my eyes within the precincts of Thornfield Hall before; the height, the contour were new to me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We were set down at St. Bartholomew's, and entered the wretched precincts of the house of disease. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But their curiosity was disappointed; for these outlets only looked upon the court of the castle, and the sound came from beyond its precincts. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Reading and writing had already long escaped from the temple precincts and the ranks of the court scribes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I had not vainly sought the storied precincts of Rome--I had discovered a medicine for my many and vital wounds. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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