Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIM'IT, v.t.

1. To bound; to set bounds to.
2. To confine within certain bounds; to circumscribe; to restrain. The government of England is called a limited monarchy. They tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel. – Ps. lxxviii.
3. To restrain from a lax or general signification. World sometimes signifies the universe, and sometimes its signification is limited to this earth.