purviews

Noun

purview (plural purviews)

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?1788, James Madison, “The Right of the Convention to Frame such a Constitution”, in The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, page 255

   Synonyms:

   responsibility

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.1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, page 18