PRECINCT (from

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• LAT

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 line, of a building or group of buildings, especially used of such a space belonging to a cathedral or other religious building . The word is frequently used, indefinitely, of the neighbourhood or environs of a place or building . In the United States of America it is applied to various minor territorial divisions or districts, for electoral or judicial purposes .