Lexic.us

Definition of Territorial

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a territory. "Territorial claims made by a country"

2. Noun. Nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit.

3. Adjective. Displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders. "Strongly territorial birds"

4. Noun. A territorial military unit.

5. Adjective. Belonging to the territory of any state or ruler. "Territorial rights"

Definition of Territorial

1. a. Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.

Definition of Territorial

1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory ¹

2. Adjective. (often capitalized) Organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army. ¹

3. Adjective. (biology) Displaying territoriality. ¹

4. Noun. a non-professional member of a Territorial Army ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Territorial

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Territorial

terrifically terrifick terrifie terrified terrifier terrifiers terrifies terrify terrifying terrifyingly

terrifyingness terrigenous terrine terrines territ territorial territorial division territorial dominion territorial matrices territorial matrix

territorial reserve territorial water territorial waters territorialisation territorialise territorialism territorialisms territorialist territorialists

Literary usage of Territorial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"Territorial § 174. The space of the territorial atmosphere is no more a special part of territory than the territorial subsoil, but it is of the greatest ..."

2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"And the United States claim the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, as well as other inlets of the same character, as territorial,1 although many European writers ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"These descents were cast under the territorial act of 1818, which altered the rule ... See Territorial Code of Michigan of 1827, p. 64; and do. of 1833, p. ..."

4. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"The distinction is apparent and useful, although internal independence is nothing else than sovereignty comprising territorial supremacy, but viewed from a ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"That the purchase, or acceptance of the cession, of territorial rights by privato persons does not constitute, or necessarily involve, annexation by the ..."

6. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1909)
"BULLETIN OP THE UNIVERSITY OP WISCONSIN CHAPTER II Territorial FINANCES—1854-1861 The seven years of Kansas' territorial life were a period of storm and ..."

7. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"In such circumstances Charles was perhaps justified in preferring, like the rest, the extension of his own territorial power to every other object. ..."

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