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,—least of all, since the date of my superannuation.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

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

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

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