Definition of district

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District (n.) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.

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Legation :: Legation (n.) A district under the jurisdiction of a legate.
Staple :: Staple (n.) A district granted to an abbey.
Archdeaconry :: Archdeaconry (n.) The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice..
Argolic :: Argolic (a.) Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus..
Tequila :: Tequila (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico..
Soken :: Soken (n.) A district held by socage.
Region :: Region (n.) The inhabitants of a district.
Backsettler :: Backsettler (n.) One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
Diocese :: Diocese (n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Provincial :: Provincial (n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order..
Glenlivet :: Glenlivet (n.) A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made..
Precinct :: Precinct (n.) A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct..
Ballot :: Ballot (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district..
Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district..
Intendancy :: Intendancy (n.) A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
Regiment :: Regiment (n.) A region or district governed.
Aguish :: Aguish (a.) Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England..
Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..
Canarese :: Canarese (a.) Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India..
Enzootic :: Enzootic (a.) Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.
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