Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LIM-IT-A'TION
LIM-IT-A'TION, n. [L. limitatio.]
- Time act of bounding or circumscribing.
- Restriction; restraint; circumscription. The king consented to a limitation of his prerogatives. Government by the limitation of natural rights secures civil liberty.
- Restriction; confinement from a lax indeterminate import. Words of general import are often to be understood with limitations.
- A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg or exercise their functions. – Gilping.
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