purview
nounEtymology
From Middle English purveu (“proviso”), from Anglo-Norman purveu est (“it is provided”), or purveu que (“provided that”) (statutory language), from Old French porveü (“provided”), past participle of porveoir (“to provide”), from Latin prōvideō (see provide). Influenced by view and its etymological antecedents.
- derived from prōvideō
- derived from porveu
- derived from purveu est
- inherited from purveu
Definitions
The enacting part of a statute.
The scope of a statute.
Scope or range of interest or control.
- Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?
- Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.
- Several air marshals have asked Congress to remove the program from T.S.A.’s purview and entrust it to a different agency, like Customs and Border Protection or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Range of understanding.
- Our company were noisy, gay, quarrelsome, full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything, persuaded that there is nothing they could not understand and no human destiny outside the purview of their system.
The neighborhood
- neighborpurvey
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at purview. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at purview. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at purview
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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