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▪ I. bounded, ppl. a.|ˈbaʊndɪd|
[f. bound v.1 + -ed.]
That has bounds or limits; that has its limits marked. Also with instrumental n., as in horizon-bounded. †b. (quot. 1685, American.) ? Marked so as to serve for a boundary. Obs.
c1600Jas. I. Sonn. in Farr S.P. (1848) 1 The bounded waves, and fishes of the seas. 1685Col. Rec. Penn. I. 128 Such as Cutt or fall Marked or bounded trees. 1756Burke Subl. & B. Wks. 1842 I. 43 Progression..alone can stamp on bounded objects the character of infinity. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. xxxi, Immense horizon-bounded plains succeed. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xlvi, O Love, thy province were not large, A bounded field. 1881Maxwell Electr. I. 16 Bounded surfaces are limited by one or more closed lines.
c. fig. Limited, circumscribed.
1709Pope Ess. Crit. 221 The bounded level of our mind. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) II. x. 255 A king of England could succeed only to a bounded prerogative. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. i. (1865) 14 In some directions Burke's view was bounded.
▪ II. † bounded
improperly for bound, bounden.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie Ep. Ded., The author therof (as he is specially bounded) shall stand. 1636Heywood Challenge i. i. Wks. 1874 V. 13 What bounded service have you ever done my beauty? a1711Ken Hymnar. Wks. 1721 II. 85 Thou..dost..keep the Tempter bounded in his chain. 1819Crabbe T. of Hall vii. 344 To this fair vision I, a bounded slave, Time, duty, credit, honour, comfort gave. |