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

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

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

The Philippine Commission commenced its functions as the legislative body, with limitary executive powers in addition, on September 1, 1900, the military governor continuing as the Chief Executive until July 4, 1901.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

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