adjective
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of, involving, or serving as a limit
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restricted or limited
Etymology
Origin of limitary
Example Sentences
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Thou guardest those whom heaven has cursed Lest from their prison-house they burst, And standest by the gates of hell Their limitary sentinel.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
The Philippine Commission commenced its functions as the legislative body, with limitary executive powers in addition, on September 1, 1900, the military governor continuing as the Chief Executive until July 4, 1901.
From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John
Certainly not by a transfer of a notion, and this too a notion of a faculty itself but notional and limitary, to the Supreme Reality.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
He was reminded, however, that his power was limitary, and that he would not be allowed to exceed it.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas
He is finely imagined, and poorly conceived,—true, that is, to the inspiring substance of man, but not true to his limitary form: for imagination gives the revealing form, conception the form which limits and conceals.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various
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