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Derogate :: Derogate (v. t.) To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.

Hitherto :: Hitherto (adv.) To this place; to a prescribed limit.

Measured :: Measured (a.) Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms..

Outgoing :: Outgoing (n.) The extreme limit; the place of ending.

Incomprehensible :: Incomprehensible (a.) Not capable of being contained within limits.

Limited :: Limited (imp. & p. p.) of Limi.

Locality :: Locality (n.) Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial..

Even :: Even (a.) Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.

Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation..

Indeterminable :: Indeterminable (a.) Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited..

Oscillate :: Oscillate (v. i.) To vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth..

Intransitive :: Intransitive (a.) Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs..

Excess :: Excess (n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light..

Measure :: Measure (n.) The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount.

Assign :: Assign (v. t.) To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial..

Plimsoll''s Mark :: Plimsoll's mark () A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured..

Sublineation :: Sublimity (n.) That which is sublime; as, the sublimities of nature..

Self-knowledge :: Self-knowledge (n.) Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc..

Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..

Limit :: Limit (v. t.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent..

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