LIM'IT, n. L. limes. See Limb.
1. Bound border utmost extent the part that terminates a thing as the limit of a town, city or empire the limits of human knowledge.
2. The thing which bounds restraint.
3. Limits, plu., the extent of the liberties of a prison.
LIM'IT,
1. To bound to set bounds to.
2. To confine within certain bounds to circumscribe to restrain. The government of England is a limited monarchy.
They tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel. Psalms 78
3. To restrain from a lax or general signification. World sometimes signifies the universe, and sometimes its signification is limited to this earth.
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