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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
delimitate .
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Examples
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Within the Serpent Wall that delimitated its boundaries, the Sacred Precinct included the major temples of Mexica gods, areas for specific sacrifices, and the houses and schools for priests.
Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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There would be a voter's role and wards would be delimitated.
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State and Northern Natal, to be delimitated in such a way that
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Nobody could have expected in the autumn of 1918 that the frontiers of the new State would be rapidly delimitated.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917
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During some centuries India, as a political region, was not delimitated on the north-western side as it is at present and numerous principalities rose and fell which included Indian territory as well as parts of Afghanistan.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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The extent to which the continent of Africa has been spoliated and delimitated by Europeans is shown in the fact that of 11,360,000 square miles of territory, all of it has been absorbed or is claimed except the 9,700 square miles controlled by Liberia on the west coast.
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Grammar and lexicography help the understanding of scripture: medicine has been of great use in establishing the influence of the Lamas: secular law is or should be an amplification of the Church's code: history compiled by sound theologians shows how the true faith is progressive and triumphant: art and ritual are so near together that their boundaries can hardly be delimitated.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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But in Asia the frontiers are not thus rigidly delimitated, nor are God and man thus opposed.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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All Germany's other frontiers should be delimitated in a like spirit.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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These have been manifested in, for example, the state formation of "delimitated religious plurality" to restrict the public into only five official religions: Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism and Buddhism.
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