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limitary, a. and n.|ˈlɪmɪtərɪ|
[ad. L. līmitāris, f. līmes limit: see -ary2.]
A. adj.
1. Subject to limits; limited in action, range, etc. † Const. to.
1620R. Brathwait Five Senses iv. 46 Delights momentany and limitarie to an instant, may for the present yeeld a satisfaction. 1673Dryden State Innocence iii. i. Wks. 1808 V. 143 Let me with Him contend, On whom your limitary powers depend. 1727C. Pitt Callimachus' Hymn to Jupiter 119 What no inferior Limitary King Could in a length of Years to Ripeness bring. 1814Scott Ess. Drama, etc. (1874) 143 The synod of Olympus..were themselves but limitary deities. 1822–56De Quincey Confess. (1862) 169 The poor limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. 1838Sir W. Hamilton Logic xxix. (1866) II. 107 We cannot, indeed, rise superior to our limitary nature. 1850Fraser's Mag. XLI. 328 The Stuarts looked abroad for models of king⁓craft, and repined at their limitary right-divine.
b. Of a friar: Licensed to beg within certain limits. (Cf. limiter 1.)
1830Scott Demonol. vi. 175 Chaucer..ascribes the exile of the fairies..to the warmth and zeal of the devotion of the limitary friars.
2. Of or pertaining to a limit or boundary; situate on the boundary. † Of a sentinel: Stationed on the boundary.
In quot. 1667 the sense is doubtful: it may be 1.
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. v. 125 All the former were limitary places in the tribe of Asher. a1661― Worthies, Cumberland i. (1662) 216 This County (because a Limitary) did abound with Fortifications. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 969 Then when I am thy captive talk of chaines, Proud limitarie cherub! 1731Bailey vol. II, Limitary, belonging to the limits or bounds. 1819Banquet 57 Visit your limitary huts, and see Where cleanliness reside, and industry. 1885W. T. Watkin in Academy 1 Aug. 77/3 We have another limitary mark on a centurial stone at Manchester.
3. Serving as a limit or boundary; limiting, confining, containing. Const. of.
1807A. Seward in Athenæum Mar. (1895) 282/1 Where the horizon's limitary line Meets the gloom'd sea. 1822B. Cornwall Dram. Scenes, Julian the Apostate ii, A limitary power, Which strikes and circumscribes the soul. 1845Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. i. v. 98 Refusing the Scriptures as..authoritative in and limitary of the Truth. 1847W. R. Hamilton Let. to De Morgan, Ess. Analytic Logical Forms 3 The once formidable array of limitary rules has vanished. The science now shines out in the true character of beauty. 1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 451/2 The hepatic cells are enclosed in a limitary membrane. 1899J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. X. 151 There was deep erosion of the nails..presenting an abrupt limitary margin.
B. n. = limiter 1. (Cf. A. 1 b.)
a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 210 Great were the Sums of Money which the Piety of the Design, and the Diligence of their Limitaries brought in from their several Walks. |