mere

Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.

The mere thought of pineapple on pizza makes me want to throw up.

And ſo vve may have an ever-grovving Idea of infinite Number as vvell as infinite Space or Emptineſs, yet it is a meer Idea, and hath no real Exiſtence vvithout us.

Pure, unalloyed .

So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion[…].

Meere [translating pure] ignorance, and wholy relying on others, was verily more profitable and wiser, than is this verball, and vaine knowledge[…].

Nothing less than; complete, downright .

If every man might have what he would[…]we should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion.

This freedom of expostulation exalted his mother's ire to meer frenzy […].

Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.

The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.

To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.

To set divisions and bounds.

To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.

What chance is there of revising this example of case law to include an exception to the generally cited rule when an administrative boundary has been mered in the past to coincide with a private property boundary?