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The Pope's Bull or Demarkation, 1493, debarred Spain from African possessions, and compelled her to contract with other nations for slaves.

From The Negro by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)

Demarcation, Demarkation, de-mark-ā′shun, n. the act of marking off or setting bounds to: division: a fixed limit.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various