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Limitary adj.

Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub."

Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." "The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world."

Limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive. "Doctrines limitary, if not subversive of the papal power."

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Etymology of 'Limitary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Limitary" Quotes from Famous Books

... of a notion, and this too a notion of a faculty itself but notional and limitary, to the Supreme Reality. But there are ideas which are of higher origin than the notions of the understanding, and by the irradiation of which the understanding itself becomes a human understanding. Of such 'veritates verificae' Leighton himself in other ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... long meditated by the two proprietors whose estates were divided by my favourite brook, was about to be drawn up the glen, in order to substitute its rectilinear deformity for the graceful winding of the natural boundary. [Note: I deem it fitting that the reader should be apprised that this limitary boundary between the conterminous heritable property of his honour the Laird of Gandercleugh, and his honour the Laird of Gusedub, was to have been in fashion an agger, or rather murus of uncemented granite, called by the vulgar a drystane dyke, surmounted, or coped, cespite viridi, ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott