limites
- plural of limes.
Example Sentences
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As touching the limites and bounds of this kingdom, we may appoint the first towards the West to be a certaine Ile commonly called Hainan, which standeth in 19 degrees of Northerly latitude.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard
Consequently, when in the third century the barbarians broke through the limites they found no forces capable of checking them until they had penetrated deeply into the heart of the provinces.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
Such roads were called limites or “boundary paths,” a name which subsequently was used in the sense of frontiers.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
B 5 verso: "I and other of her Justices have received commission for the apprehending of as many as are within these limites."
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace
Scholares vernacula lingua intra Collegii limites nullo prætextu utuntor, was the law,—a law which Cotton Mather complains was so neglected in his day "as to render our scholars very unfit for a conversation with strangers."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
