Synonyms for ambit

Grammar : Noun

Spell : am-bit

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæm bɪt

Définition of ambit

Origin : late 14c., "space surrounding a building or town; precinct;" 1590s, "a circuit," from Latin ambitus "a going round," past participle of ambire "to go round, to go about" (see ambient).

noun extent

Example sentences :

I saw for the first time an horizon as an arc suggesting how wide is our ambit.
Extract from : « The Sea and the Jungle » by H. M. Tomlinson

But he determined the key to the solution lay within that ambit.
Extract from : « If Winter Comes » by A.S.M. Hutchinson

The purpose was manifestly to make the ambit of review under the Act at least as wide as at common law.
Extract from : « Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster » by Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers

Is there jurisdiction in the Courts to review in such a context as this taking into account the ambit of ss.
Extract from : « Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster » by Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers

This simile to Nonconformity also holds good a little when we seek to ascertain the ambit of Richardson's popularity.
Extract from : « Res Judicat » by Augustine Birrell

Against this it was maintained that Kimberley was outside the ambit of the army's high and mighty consideration.
Extract from : « The Siege of Kimberley » by T. Phelan

The whole surface of my ambit was spread out like a miniature map in my eye, and continues to be.
Extract from : « Confessions of Boyhood » by John Albee

The correctional courts mentioned deal with the graver offences which are outside the ambit of the juge de paix.
Extract from : « France » by Gordon Cochrane Home

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