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Definition of Mark out
1. Verb. Set boundaries to and delimit. "Mark out the territory"
Generic synonyms: Bound, Confine, Limit, Restrain, Restrict, Throttle, Trammel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mark Out
Literary usage of Mark out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"... uniform, universal, and permanent; in order to mark out with precision, who
is that single person, to whom are committed (in subservience to the law of ..."
2. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... Estate I could mark out about seventy of them, who would be ready to defend
their Country, and stand to their Arms in good Earnest, if Occasion called ..."
3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"(WBS) Design (in philosophy) [Lat. designare, to mark out] : Ger. Zweck ; Fr.
dessein ; liai, disegno. The attribution of cases of adaptation in nature to ..."
4. The Library of American Biography by Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), Jared Sparks (1847)
"Commissioned to mark out a Road for the Emigrants. — Erects a Fort at Boonesborough.
— Indians hostile. — Removes his Family to Kentucky. — Lexington. ..."
5. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"... to sign or mark out, signifies to set apart for a purpose. Advance, Middle
English avancen, from French avant, Low Latin ab (from) and ante (before), ..."
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