purview

noun

Etymology: 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.

1. The enacting part of a statute.
2. The scope of a statute.
3. 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?”

   “Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.”

4. 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.”