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(chiefly in the plural) An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.
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Poetry examples for “precinct”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Yet on my lips is the moly, medicinal, offered of Hermes.
I have come into the precinct, the labyrinth closes around me,
Path into path rounding slyly; I pace slowly on, and the fancy,
Read full poem →How tranquil and unsecular
The precinct! Once, through yonder gate,
I saw her go, and knew from far
Read full poem →The pulp-mill, the policeman, magistrate,
The alderman, the precinct captain too,
And you the girls, myself the editor,
Read full poem →address, rendered the description necessary, by the violence
committed within the sacred precinct, and turned it, not upon
minute and rhetorical detail, but upon the general awful properties