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

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 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