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Word of the Day: Demarcate

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

demarcate

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 21, 2018 is:

demarcate \dih-MAHR-kayt\ verb

1 : to fix or define the limits of : delimit

2 : to set apart : distinguish

Examples:

Treaty negotiations are underway, and both parties have agreed

to accept whatever boundaries are demarcated in that document.

"These so-called stelae, some roughly 10 stories high with

intricately carved stone, are thought to have demarcated royal
burial places." — Marcus Eliason, The Denver Post, 14 Jan.
2018

Did you know?

Demarcate is set apart by its unique history. Scholars think it may

have descended from the Italian verb marcare ("to mark"), which
is itself of Germanic origin (the Old High German word for
boundary, marha, is a relative). Marcare is the probable source of
the Spanish marcar (also "to mark"), from which comes the
Spanish demarcar ("to fix the boundary of"). In 1494, a Spanish
noun, demarcación, was used to name the meridian dividing New

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World territory between Spain and Portugal. Later (about 1730),

English speakers began calling this boundary the "line of
demarcation," and eventually we began applying that phrase to
other dividing lines as well. Demarcation, in turn, gave rise to
demarcate in the early 19th century.

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