limitary

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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

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

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 Wright, Thomas

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

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