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The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.

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  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • LIMITARIAN
    Tending to limit.
  • LIMITIVE
    Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
  • LIMITABLE
    Capable of being limited.
  • PURLIEU
    puralée, poralée (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. 1. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest,
  • LIMITARY
    1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
  • ENVIRONS
    The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
  • DISTRICT
    Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
  • LIMITANEOUS
    Of or pertaining to a limit.
  • CONFINELESS
    Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
  • PRECINCT
    praecinctum, to gird about, to encompass; prae before + cingere to 1. The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state. "The precincts
  • LIMITATE
    Bounded by a distinct line.
  • CONFINE
    To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
  • CONFINEMENT
    1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
  • LIMITOUR
    See 2
  • LIMITEDNESS
    The quality of being limited.
  • LIMITATION
    1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
  • LIMITED
    Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called
  • BORDEREAU
    A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
  • DISTRICTION
    Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
  • UNLIMITED
    1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • REDISTRICT
    To divide into new districts.
  • PRELIMIT
    To limit previously.
  • DELIMITATION
    The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
  • OUTBOUNDS
    The farthest or exterior bounds; extreme limits; boundaries. Spenser.
  • ILLIMITATION
    State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.

 

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