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umscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor. As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed. Pope.

Capable of being limited.

Of or pertaining to a limit. [Obs.]

Tending to limit.

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

Bounded by a distinct line.

The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible modes of existence in the universe. J. S. Mill.

Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. [Eng.] Mozley & W.…

With limitation.

The quality of being limited.

One who, or that which, limits.

Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. [R.]

Having no limits; unbounded; boundless. Davies (Wit's Pilgr.).

See Limiter, 2.

To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.

Being beyond the limit or bounds; as, extraliminary land. Mitford.

Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space. The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.

Not limited; interminable. Bp. Hall. -- Il*lim"it*ed*ness, n. The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon.