noun a parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.
2. precinct ·noun a district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.
3. precinct ·noun the limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority;
often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.