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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Girt; cinctured; surrounded.

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  • Never a night passed but the dreary stage-door was cinct with a circlet of fools bearing bright bouquets, of flaxen-headed fools who had feet like black needles, and graceful fools incumbent upon canes.

    The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914

  • We enlisted 3,600 bloggers within cinct captains of the online world.

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  • Under state law, a successor to fill the remainder of his term will be chosen by a vacancy committee made up of about 160 Larimer County Republican pre-cinct chairs and other party leaders.

    coloradoan.com - Local News 2009

  • Any vacancy in the full number of town meeting members from any precinct, whether arising from a failure of the registered voters thereof to elect, or from any other cause, may be filled until the next annual election by the remaining town meeting members of the pre - cinct from among the registered voters thereof.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • [On a petition of the South Church in Braintree that a pre - Legislative cinct may be ordered and settled in that part of the town a hearing Records of the was set for the 6th of this November.] viii.,

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Any vacancy in the full number of town meeting members from any precinct, whether arising from a failure of the registered voters thereof to elect, or from any other cause, may be filled until the next annual elec - tion by the remaining town meeting members of the pre - cinct from among the registered voters thereof.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • They shall also cause to be posted in at least one public place in each pre - cinct a map or description of that precinct with the names

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • The number of town meeting members representing such pre - cinct immediately preceding such a division shall remain unchanged and such members shall be elected from the same territory until a general revision of precincts is made.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • A town meeting member who removes from the town shall cease to be a town meeting member, and an elected town meeting member who removes from one pre - cinct to another may serve only until the next annual town meeting.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • SUDBURY. west side of river: petitions to be made a separate parish or pre - cinct, hearing appointed, ..

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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