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Webster 1913 Edition
Limit
Lim′it
(lĭm′ĭt)
, Noun.
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; the limits
of human knowledge or endeavor.As eager of the chase, the maid
Beyond the forest’s verdant
Beyond the forest’s verdant
limits
strayed. Pope.
2.
The space or thing defined by limits.
The archdeacon hath divided it
Into three
Into three
limits
very equally. Shakespeare
3.
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
The dateless
limit
of thy dear exile. Shakespeare
The
limit
of your lives is out. Shakespeare
4.
A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
I prithee, give no
limits
to my tongue. Shakespeare
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.
Syn. – Boundary; border; edge; termination; restriction; bound; confine.
Lim′it
(lĭm′ĭt)
, Verb.
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
,Verb.
I.
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region;
as, a
. limiting
friar[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Limit
LIM'IT
,Noun.
1.
Bound; border; utmost extent; the part that terminates a thing; as the limit of a town, city or empire; the limits of human knowledge.2.
The thing which bounds; restraint.3.
Limits, plu., the extent of the liberties of a prison.LIM'IT
, v.t.1.
To bound; to set bounds to.2.
To confine within certain bounds; to circumscribe; to restrain. The government of England is a limited monarchy.They tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel. Ps.78.
3.
To restrain from a lax or general signification. World sometimes signifies the universe, and sometimes its signification is limited to this earth.