Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIM-IT-A'TION, n. [L. limitatio.]

1. Time act of bounding or circumscribing.
2. Restriction; restraint; circumscription. The king consented to a limitation of his prerogatives. Government by the limitation of natural rights secures civil liberty.
3. Restriction; confinement from a lax indeterminate import. Words of general import are often to be understood with limitations.
4. A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg or exercise their functions. – Gilping.