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Conterminous   Listen
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Conterminous  adj.  Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. "This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Conterminous" Quotes from Famous Books



... suppressed with no great difficulty; and in 1894 the boundaries of the Colony, which had been advancing by a series of small annexations, were finally rounded off on the eastern side by the addition of the territory of the Pondos, which made it conterminous in that direction with the Colony ...
— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce

... act of Congress amendatory of an act in relation to aiding vessels wrecked or disabled in the waters conterminous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada was approved May 24, 1890, the said act being ...
— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland



Words linked to "Conterminous" :   commensurate, neighboring, connected, contiguous, coterminous



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