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)
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
I never stood much affected to these limitary specialities.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
It is an infinite, an indistinct, where each consciousness defines and sets a limitary form.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
I never stood much affected to these limitary specialities,—least of all, since the date of my superannuation.
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles
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