Word Meanings - LIMITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.

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• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• EXISTER
  One who exists.
• EXISTIBLE
  Capable of existence. Grew.
• 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.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• EXISTENT
  Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• LIMITANEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a limit.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• LIMITATE
  Bounded by a distinct line.
• DESIGNLESS
  Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv.
• LIMITOUR
  See 2
• LIMITEDNESS
  The quality of being limited.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• 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
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• SELF-EXISTENT
  Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.
• PRELIMIT
  To limit previously.
• NONEXISTENT
  Not having existence.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• COEXIST
  To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with. Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so
• COEXISTENT
  Existing at the same time with another. -- n.