delimitate
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It needed more than four centuries to establish and to delimitate the New Testament.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
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.
From Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton
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.
From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by James H. (James Henry) Leuba
All Germany's other frontiers should be delimitated in a like spirit.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
But in Asia the frontiers are not thus rigidly delimitated, nor are God and man thus opposed.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
Mr. James Hart, the I.G.'s brother, lately returned from delimitating the Tonkin frontier, was sent posthaste to assist the Amban, the Chinese Resident in Thibet.
From Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition by Juliet Bredon
