purview

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Scope or range of interest or control.

   Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?

2. 2
   noun

   Range of understanding.

   Our company were noisy, gay, quarrelsome, full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything, persuaded that there is nothing they could not understand and no human destiny outside the purview of their system.

3. 3
   noun

   the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated

4. 4
   noun

   The enacting part of a statute.

From Middle English purveu (“proviso”), from Anglo-Norman purveu est (“it is provided”), or purveu que (“provided that”) (statutory language), from Old French porveü (“provided”), past participle of porveoir (“to provide”), from Latin prōvideō (see provide). Influenced by view and its etymological antecedents.

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