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–noun

1.	the range of operation, authority, control, concern, etc.

2.	the range of vision, insight, or understanding.

Law.

a.	that which is provided or enacted in a statute, as distinguished from the preamble.

b.	the purpose or scope of a statute.

4.	the full scope or compass of any document, statement, subject, book, etc.

[Origin: 1225–75; ME purveu < AF: ptp. of purveier to purvey

]

—Synonyms 1. scope, responsibility, compass, extent.

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n.

The extent or range of function, power, or competence; scope. See Synonyms at range.
Range of vision, comprehension, or experience; outlook.
Law The body, scope, or limit of a statute.

[Alteration (influenced by view) of Middle English purveu, proviso, from Anglo-Norman purveu est, it is provided (from the use of this word to introduce a proviso), past participle of purveier, to provide; see purvey.]

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purview

1442, "body of a statute," from Anglo-Fr. purveuest "it is provided," or purveu que "provided that" (1275), clauses that introduced statutes in old legal documents, from O.Fr. porveu "provided," pp. of porveoir "to provide," from L. providere (see provide). Sense of "scope, extent" is first recorded 1788 in "Federalist" (Madison). Modern sense and spelling influenced by view.

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purview
noun
the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" [syn: horizon]

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Pro*vi"so\, n.; pl. Provisos. [L., (it) being provided, abl. of provisus, p. p. of providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview.] An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.

He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception. --Shak.

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