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The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. Marshall. Profanations within the purview of several statutes. Bacon. 2. Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent. In determining the extent of information required
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The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. Marshall. Profanations within the purview of several statutes. Bacon. 2. Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent. In determining the extent of information required in the exercise of a particular authority, recourse must be had to the objects within the purview of that authority. Madison. (more info) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble. Cowell. Hence:
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- BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - INTENTIONALITY
The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge. - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - SCOPELINE
Scopeloid. - LIMITARIAN
Tending to limit. - LIMITIVE
Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. - LIMITABLE
Capable of being limited. - DETERMINE
1. To come to an end; to end; to terminate. He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone. 2. To come to a decision; - WHOLENESS
The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness. - WHOLE-HOOFED
Having an undivided hoof, as the horse. - SCOPE
1. That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope." - LIMITARY
1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey. - INFORMATION
A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal - SCOPELOID
Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodæ, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n. - REQUIRER
One who requires. - INTENTIONAL
Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental. - LIMITANEOUS
Of or pertaining to a limit. - WHOLESALE
1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for - STATUTE
of statuere to set, station, ordain, fr. status position, station, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constitute, 1. An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; - PURVIEW
The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. Marshall. Profanations within the purview of several statutes. Bacon. 2. Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent. In determining the extent of information required - HAEMATOSCOPE
A hæmoscope. - LACTOSCOPE
An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. - METEOROSCOPE
An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star. - UNLIMITED
1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not - OTOSCOPEIC
Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy. - ENDOSCOPE
An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder. - MICROSPECTROSCOPE
A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance. - UNSPHERE
To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak. - AEROSPHERE
The atmosphere. - STEREOMONOSCOPE
An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once. - COSMOSPHERE
An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe. - TELESPECTROSCOPE
A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer. - INDETERMINABLE
Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.