limitary

Example Sentences

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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

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

He was reminded, however, that his power was limitary, and that he would not be allowed to exceed it.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas

It is an infinite, an indistinct, where each consciousness defines and sets a limitary form.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Thou guardest those whom heaven has cursed Lest from their prison-house they burst, And standest by the gates of hell Their limitary sentinel.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)