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Delimit

verb
1.
Determine the essential quality of.  Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify.
2.
Be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry.  Synonym: subtend.
3.
Set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something.  Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate.



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"Delimit" Quotes from Famous Books



... suggestive of the Roman manner, far more than the Gothic; though the primitiveness shown in the long, upright lines of the west front of this cathedral marks it at once as something different from either Romanesque or Transition,—though Transition it must be, unless we delimit the confines of that useful term. In any case, it points unto heaven in a truly devout manner, is not debased in any particular, and, if not a consistent style, has many of the good qualities of both. The Cathedral of St. Maurice is best seen from a point of view ...
— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun

... hope to find words to adumbrate a philosophy which starts by the assumption that we can have no impression of reality until we have rid ourselves of the interposing and utterly false concepts of space and time, which delimit the whole world of ...
— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford



Words linked to "Delimit" :   limit, circumscribe, determine, be, redefine, confine



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