delimitate

[ dih-lim-i-teyt ]

verb (used with object)

, de·lim·i·tat·ed, de·lim·i·tat·ing.

1. delimit.

Other Words From

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of delimitate¹

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

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.

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

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

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

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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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Related Words

• curb
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• restrain
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