Word Meanings - LIMITANEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a limit.

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• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• 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.
• LIMITANEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a limit.
• LIMITATE
  Bounded by a distinct line.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• LIMITOUR
  See 2
• LIMITEDNESS
  The quality of being limited.
• LIMITATION
  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
• LIMITED
  Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called
• LIMIT
  A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic a differentia. (more info) 1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country;
• LIMITLESS
  Having no limits; unbounded; boundless. Davies .
• LIMITER
  1. One who, or that which, limits. 2. A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district. Chaucer. A limitour of the Gray Friars, in the time of his limitation, preached many times, and had one sermon
• LIMITEDLY
  With limitation.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• PRELIMIT
  To limit previously.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• EXTRALIMITARY
  Being beyond the limit or bounds; as, extraliminary land. Mitford.
• UNLIMITABLE
  Illimitable. Locke.