purview: M-W's Word of the Day

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The Word of the Day for June 20 is:

purview \PER-vyoo\ noun
1 a : the body or enacting part of a statute b : the limit, purpose, or scope of a statute
*2 : the range or limit of authority, competence, responsibility, concern, or intention
3 : range of vision, understanding, or cognizance

Example sentence:
The court ruled that the student's T-shirt fell under the purview of the First Amendment.

Did you know?
You might guess that there is a connection between "purview" and "view," but the two words are not actually related. "Purview" comes from "purveu," a word often found in the legal statutes of 13th- and 14th-century England. These statutes, written in the Anglo-French, opened with the phrases "purveu est" and "purveu que," which translate literally to "it is provided" and "provided that." "Purveu" derives from "porveu," the past participle of the Old French verb "porveeir," meaning "to provide." "View" derives (via Middle English) from the past participle of another Anglo-French word, "veer," meaning "to see," and ultimately from the Latin "videre," also meaning "to see."

*Indicates the sense illustrated by the example sentence.

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