Part 707

Shak.

The limit of your lives is out.

Shak.

4. A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.

I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.

Shak.

5. (Logic & Metaph.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.

6. (Math.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.

Elastic limit. See under Elastic. -- Prison limits, a definite extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come.

Syn. -- Boundary; border; edge; termination; restriction; bound; confine.

Lim"it (lm"t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Limited; p. pr. & vb. n. Limiting.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr. limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.] To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.

Limiting parallels (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.

Lim"it, v. i. To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar. [Obs.]

Lim"it*a*ble (-*b'l), a. Capable of being limited.

Lim`i*ta"ne*ous (lm`*t"n*s), a. [L. limitaneus. See Limit, v. t.] Of or pertaining to a limit. [Obs.]

Lim`i*ta"ri*an (-r*an), a. Tending to limit.

Lim"i*ta*ry (lm"*t*r), a. [L. limitaris. See Limit , v. t.] 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.

Lim"i*ta*ry, n.; pl. - ries (-rz). 1. That which serves to limit; a boundary; border land. [Obs.] Fuller.

2. A limiter. See Limiter, 2.

Lim"i*tate (-*tt), a. [L. limitatus, p. p. of limitare to limit. See Limit, v. t. ] Bounded by a distinct line.

Lim`i*ta"tion (-t"shn), n. [L. limitatio: cf. F. limitation. See Limit, v. t.] 1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.

They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible modes of existence in the universe.