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precinctual, a.|prɪˈsɪŋktjuːəl|
[f. precinct n. + -ual, perh. after instinctual a.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a precinct.
1949Archit. Rev. CVI. 144 The plan is clearly based on the precinctual theory, with interconnected squares, throughout which the pedestrian receives priority. 1960Guardian 15 June 28/4 The road..‘would be prejudicial to the precinctual character of the area’. 1965New Statesman 30 July 146/1 There would be time to consider whether the Martin plan's obsession with ‘enclosure’ adds up to anything more than an unrevised residue of the Architectural Review's ‘Westminster Regained’—a precinctual proposal conceived at a time of positively prelapsarian innocence. |