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limitable, a.|ˈlɪmɪtəb(ə)l|
[f. limit v. + -able.]
That may be limited.
1581Mulcaster Positions xliv. (1887) 287 When the childe knoweth his certainetie in all limitable circumstances. 1643Herle Answ. Ferne 29 A power..limitable..not to be exercised within fifty dayes. 1686J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 363 If they are limitable by any other Power, they are Subjects to that Power.
Hence ˈlimitableness.
1644Hunton Vind. Treat. Monarchy iv. 22 Neither its being supreme doth hinder its limitablenesse. 1684–5H. More Let. 19 Jan. in Norris Theory Love (1688) 154 Those terms Totum and Omne..imply also a comprehensibleness, limitableness, or exhaustibleness of the number of those parts. |