Word Meanings - LIMITARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.

Additional info about word: LIMITARY

1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey. 3. Limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive. Doctrines limitary, if not subversive of the papal power. Milman.

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