circumscription

NOUN
  1. the act of circumscribing
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  • It was Agassiz's declared belief that man had sprung not from a common stock, but from various centres, and that the original circumscription of these primordial groups of the human family corresponded in a large and general way with the distribution of animals and their combination into faunae. Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
  • However, there are other ecclesiastical circumscriptions in the Church which are delimited on a personal -- and not territorial -- basis, for various pastoral needs. Archive 2008-04-01
  • BOOK: Bit beyond the unbearable circumscription of Alcestis's life, yes. In Conclusion, I Hate You All
  • The Armenians have other circumscriptions opearating under similar circumstances. Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English
  • This is because the limits of the circumscription of an ICZN-taxon can only be approximated using the species and diagnostic characters listed by the author.
  • Accordingly, researchers in logic-based AI have put a lot of effort into developing a variety of non-monotonic reasoning formalisms, such as circumscription (McCarthy 1986), and investigating their application to the frame problem. The Frame Problem
  • Hijacking astronomical argot from “white dwarves” to “red giants,” Big Bang explodes from this empty center with an elliptic circumscription of parodic pseudo-charts and de-functionalized cosmological notions. /ubu Editions, Third Series: 12 New Titles : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • Enes introduces a system of circunscrições indígenas (native circumscriptions) and divides the Lourenço Marques district into five circumscriptions, each with its own administrator, to formalize colonial rule at the local level. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • Although Paillard's writings do not reveal whether he was aware of growing commercial interest in Magude's riverine soils at the time the mission acquired the two concessions, he anticipated a land rush that gathered pace in the circumscription from the 1920s onward. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • It's been an uphill battle against the tight circumscription of roles dictated by magazines and fortified by generations of well-meaning mothers trying to help their children make their way in the world. Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
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