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Limitary   Listen
noun
Limitary  n.  (pl. limitaries)  
1.
That which serves to limit; a boundary; border land. (Obs.)
2.
A limiter. See Limiter, 2.





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"Limitary" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed,—whatever might have been the cause of that silence—ignorance, indolence, sickness, or corruption,—rendered the most unlawful stretch of power on the part of the council, including the total subversion of all the limitary clauses, binding upon the colony, and if sanctioned by the Queen, through the same ministerial inadvertence or corruption, binding for ever. Judging of the intentions of parliament by the general character of colonial legislation ...
— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West
... emotion limited by language. It is intenser, it is more immediate, as compensation for being less intelligible, less unmistakable in meaning. It is an infinite, an indistinct, where each consciousness defines and sets a limitary form. ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds


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