limitary

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Certainly not by a transfer of a notion, and this too a notion of a faculty itself but notional and limitary, to the Supreme Reality.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Not that I fear, do I decline the fight: You I disdain; let me with Him contend, On whom your limitary powers depend.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

I never stood much affected to these limitary specialities,—least of all, since the date of my superannuation.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

I never stood much affected to these limitary specialities.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

He is finely imagined, and poorly conceived,—true, that is, to the inspiring substance of man, but not true to his limitary form: for imagination gives the revealing form, conception the form which limits and conceals.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various