Having clear, fixed boundaries or limits; marked or defined with precise borders.
Past participle of delimitate (de- + limitare + -ated). Archaic or formal variant of 'delimited,' appearing in older legal and geographical texts from the 18th-19th centuries.
You'll see 'delimitated' in old treaties and maps—it's the fancy way colonial powers said 'we drew a line here and everything on this side is ours,' a formal way of making boundaries sound official and unchangeable.
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