Definition of limit

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Limit (v. t.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.

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Prompt :: Prompt (n.) A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note..
Territory :: Territory (n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province..
Watermark :: Watermark (n.) A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water..
List :: List (n.) A limit or boundary; a border.
Omnipotent :: Omnipotent (a.) Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent..
Forest :: Forest (n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own..
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..
Omnipotency :: Omnipotency (n.) Unlimited power of a particular kind; as, love's omnipotence..
Outrageous :: Outrageous (n.) Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious..
Sublimity :: Sublimities (pl. ) of Sublimit.
Unlimited :: Unlimited (a.) Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean..
Moderate :: Moderate (a.) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind..
Infinite :: Infinite (a.) Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite..
Halcyon :: Halcyon (n.) A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia..
Shire :: Shire (n.) A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire..
Hendiadys :: Hendiadys (n.) A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups..
Boundary :: Boundary (n.) That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary 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..
Option :: Option (n.) A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit..
Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..
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