limitary
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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 Sir Walter Scott
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
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
The brilliant dare-devil from Italy despised alike the raw, limitary, reputable, priggish undergraduates and the dull, snuffling, smug-looking, fussy dons.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright
