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Want of limitation; failure to limit.

To limit previously. [R.]

That which is sublime; as, the sublimities of nature.

Illimitable. Locke.

Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean.

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

Without limit; endlessly.

ubstantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

pressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

ity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herber…

A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.

m, rubidium. -- Alkaline reaction, a reaction indicating alkalinity, as by the action on limits, turmeric, etc.

unty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.

Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible. I am the Almighty God. Gen. xvii. 1.

gleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.

The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.

In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases. Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques. Byron.