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Territorial   /tˌɛrɪtˈɔriəl/   Listen
Territorial

adjective
1.
Of or relating to a territory.  "Territorial claims made by a country"
2.
Displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders.  "Strongly territorial birds"
3.
Belonging to the territory of any state or ruler.
noun
1.
Nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit.
2.
A territorial military unit.  Synonym: territorial reserve.



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"Territorial" Quotes from Famous Books



... no formula is adequate to convey the full meaning. From one point of view it was the nationalization of the Church, the subjection of the ecclesiastical to the lay power. In the end the principle of territorial sovereignty everywhere prevailed, in Catholic no less than in Protestant countries: whether Lutheran or Gallican or Anglican, whether completely separated from Rome or retaining a spiritual communion with ...
— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker

... in Misopogon, p. 340. Leuce tia, or Lutetia, was the ancient name of the city, which, according to the fashion of the fourth century, assumed the territorial appellation ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... window, he found that it opened with ease, admitting him into a little room crowded with dusty books and cobwebs. He knew then that he was in the territorial outskirts of a certain second-hand bookseller, with whom he had occasional dealings. He closed the window, and sat down upon a pile of neglected volumes. The moon shining through the clouded window revealed rows of books all about ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... by the Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow against the Educational Movement—Equally suited to bear against the Scheme of Educational Grants—Great superiority of Territorial over Denominational Endowment—The Scottish People sound as a whole, but some of the Scottish Sects very unsound—State of the ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

... Taylor, the place of Commissioner of the General Land Office; willing to bury himself in one of the administrative bureaus of the government. Fortunately for the country, he failed; and no less fortunately, when, later, the territorial governorship of Oregon was offered to him, Mrs. Lincoln's protest induced him to decline it. Returning to Springfield, he gave himself with renewed zest to his law practice, acquiesced in the Compromise of 1850 with reluctance and a mental reservation, ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln


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