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delimitate

[ dih-lim-i-teyt ]

verb (used with object)

delimitated, delimitating.


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Other Words From

  • de·lim·i·ta·tion [dih-lim-i-, tey, -sh, uh, n], noun
  • de·lim·i·ta·tive noun adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of delimitate1

First recorded in 1880–85; from Latin dēlīmitātus, past participle of dēlīmitāre; See delimit, -ate 1
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Example Sentences

But since the function of words is to delimitate, one defeats the purpose of language by stretching the meaning of a word until it has lost all precision and unity of meaning.

It needed more than four centuries to establish and to delimitate the New Testament.

But in Asia the frontiers are not thus rigidly delimitated, nor are God and man thus opposed.

All Germany's other frontiers should be delimitated in a like spirit.

Now we must get to closer quarters, and show how it enables us to delimitate the exact position comedy occupies among all the other arts.

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