Loading...

KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Limit

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limit

LIM'IT, noun [Latin limes. See Limb.]

1. Bound; border; utmost extent; the part that terminates a thing; as the limit of a town, city or empire; the limits of human knowledge.

2. The thing which bounds; restraint.

3. Limits, plural , the extent of the liberties of a prison.

LIM'IT, verb transitive

1. To bound; to set bounds to.

2. To confine within certain bounds; to circumscribe; to restrain. The government of England is a limited monarchy.

They tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel. Psalms 78:41.

3. To restrain from a lax or general signification. World sometimes signifies the universe, and sometimes its signification is limited to this earth.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limitable

LIM'ITABLE, adjective That may be limited, circumscribed, bounded or restrained.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limitaneous

LIM'ITANEOUS, adjective Pertaining to bounds.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limitarian

LIMITA'RIAN, adjective That limits or circumscribes.

LIMITA'RIAN, noun One that limits; one who holds the doctrine that a part of the human race only are to be saved; opposed to universalist.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limitary

LIM'ITARY, adjective Placed at the limit, as a guard.

- Proud limitary cherub.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limitation

LIMITA'TION, noun [Latin limitatio.]

1. The 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.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limited

LIM'ITED, participle passive

1. Bounded; circumscribed; restrained.

2. adjective Narrow; circumscribed. Our views of nature are very limited


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limitedly

LIM'ITEDLY, adverb With limitation.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limitedness

LIM'ITEDNESS, noun State of being limited.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limiter

LIM'ITER, noun

1. He or that which limits or confines.

2. A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Limitless

LIM'ITLESS, adjective Having no limits; unbounded.


The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance: