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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 275 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRECINCT (from See also:Lat. praecingere, to encircle, enclose, surround, prae and cingere, to gird) , an enclosure, a space within the boundaries, marked by walls or fences or by an imaginary See also:line, of a See also:building or See also:group of buildings, especially used of such a space belonging to a See also:cathedral or other religious building. The word is frequently used, indefinitely, of the neighbourhood or environs of a See also:place or building. In the See also:United States of See also:America it is applied to various See also:minor territorial divisions or districts, for electoral or judicial purposes.

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