limitaryadj.n.
/ˈlɪmᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈlɪməˌtɛri/ Now rare.† B. n.
A. adj.
1. † b. Of a friar: licensed to beg within certain limits. Cf. limiter n. 1. Obsolete.
a. Subject to limits; limited, restricted (†to something).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective]
narroweOE
restraint1445
modifiedc1485
limitate1541
restricteda1550
strait-laced1549
scant1556
circumcised1561
contract1561
restrained1578
determinate1586
limited1590
restrict1597
strict1597
confined1605
determineda1616
limitary1620
prescript1645
modificated1646
circumscribed1647
conscribed1654
limitated1654
reserved1654
coarctated1655
straiteneda1665
unabsolute1694
stinted1710
bounded1711
contracted1711
cramped1741
special1815
municipal1856
fine-cut1894
stingy1927
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > restricted or limited
narroweOE
restraint1445
modifiedc1485
limitate1541
restricteda1550
scant1556
contract1561
limited1590
confined1605
limitary1620
prescript1645
modificated1646
circumscribed1647
limitated1654
reserved1654
coarctated1655
unabsolute1694
bounded1711
contracted1711
cramped1741
crimped1828
stingy1927
1620 R. Brathwait Ess. Fiue Senses iv. 46 Delights momentany and limitarie to an instant, may for the present yeeld a satisfaction.
1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iii. i. 23 Let me with him contend On whom your limitary power's depend.
1727 C. Pitt Callimachus' Hymn to Jupiter 119 What no inferior Limitary King Could in a length of Years to Ripeness bring.
1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 47 The poor limitary creature, calling himself a man of the world.
1850 Fraser's Mag. 41 328/2 The Stuarts looked abroad for models of kingcraft, and repined at their limitary right-divine.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) II. xxix. 107 We cannot, indeed, rise superior to our limitary nature.
2005 M. Cody Mosquitoes don't drink Rakia xv. 184 Having limitary powers only, the courtly waitress sent for the manager.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [adjective] > mendicant
mendinantc1400
mendicant1470
mendiant1535
limitary1830
1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft vi. 175 Chaucer..ascribes the exile of the fairies..to the warmth and zeal of the devotion of the limitary friars.
1859 Westm. Rev. Jan. 225 Chaucer,..declares the incubus endangering female chastity in his day to be neither the shaggy faun nor ministering angel, but only the limitary friar.
2. Of or relating to a limit or boundary; situated or stationed on the border.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [adjective] > situated on a boundary
limitary1627
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [adjective]
finitivec1550
limitaneous1640
terminal1652
limitary1731
limital1847
1627 G. Richardson Of State of Europe xii. 37 There were ordained by these Princes..certaine limitary prefects to defend that frontiere.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. v. 125 All the former were limitary places in the Tribe of Asher.
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Limitary, belonging to the limits or bounds.
1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 56/1 What added also to the rounding of our territories, and cutting off the occasions of limitary disputes, was the cession of Florida on the part of Spain.
1819 H. Busk Banquet 57 Visit your limitary huts, and see Where cleanliness reside, and industry.
1885 W. T. Watkin in Academy 1 Aug. 77/3 We have another limitary mark on a centurial stone at Manchester.
1927 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 17 105/1 It is evidently a limitary province protected by frontier forts.
2001 P. Cartledge Spartan Refl. ii. 17 By far the most important of these limitary sanctuaries in the immediate environs of Sparta was that of Apollo and Hyakinthos.
3. Serving as a limit or boundary; limiting, confining, containing. Also with †of.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [adjective] > that bounds or forms boundary
terminative?a1475
bounding1594
boundedc1600
limitary1771
circumscribing1846
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective]
restraintive1526
limitative1530
circumscribing1571
restrictive1580
continent1598
restricting1606
confininga1616
contractive1624
strait-lacing1636
limiting1656
cohibitive1668
contracting1765
limitary1822
restrictionary1828
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] > restricting or limiting
narroweOE
restraintive1526
limitative1530
circumscribing1571
restrictive1580
restraining1597
continent1598
restricting1606
confininga1616
contractive1624
strait-lacing1636
limiting1656
cohibitive1668
contracting1765
restrictory1776
limitary1822
restrictionary1828
scopeless1882
1771 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. I. i. v. 155 In this prudent resolution surveying the banks of their limitary stream,..they must have eagerly seized this remarkable peninsula.
1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Julian the Apostate in Dramat. Scenes ii A limitary power, Which strikes and circumscribes the soul.
1845 R. C. Trench Fitness Holy Script. v. 98 Refusing the Scriptures as..authoritative in and limitary of the Truth.
1847 W. 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.
1899 J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. X. 151 There was deep erosion of the nails..presenting an abrupt limitary margin.
1973 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 36 216/2 The early limitary markers, customarily placed by the Portuguese along the African coast, were surmounted by a horizontal block for an inscription.
1996 R. Weisbuch in M. Orzeck & R. Weisbuch Dickinson & Audience iii. 59 Her goal is to discourage such limitary determinants.
= limiter n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > licensed beggar > within certain limits
limiterc1400
limiting friarc1576
limitarya1662
society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > begging > within limits
limiterc1400
limiting friarc1576
limitarya1662
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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