LIMITARY

a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

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

2.
a.

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

3.
a.

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

4.
n.

That which serves to limit; a boundary; border land. [Obs.] Fuller.

5.
n.

A limiter. See Limiter, 2.

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