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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Limitat, p.p. and ppl. a. Also: -ate. [L. līmitātus, p.p. of līmitāre Limit v.]For this word in the active const., see Limitatv.
Circumscribed within an appointed or settled boundary, territorially delimited, esp. by authority. Also const. to or within a specified area.p.p. 1541 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 110.
To gyf to the said systeris the pece grene of thair commoun mwre now foundit about with dike as the samyn is ellis limitat 1561 Glasgow Prot. III. 3.
Ane pece [of land] … limitat and boyndet betuex the calsay [etc.] 1566 Milne Home MSS. 45.
[We command] David Hwme … to … cum furth of his present ward appointit and limitat within the boundis of Galloway bewest the watter of Nyth 1581 Burne in Cath. Tr. (S.T.S.) 164/20.
As gif … His pouar of virking miraclis var limitat to the pairtis onlie quhair your sanctis var bureit 1654 Blairs P. 94.
He taketh home with him two Irish preists for our Yles, so that ther iurisdictione is limitate to those Ylesppl. a. c1575 Balfour Pract. 158.
Gif ony man … be lauchfullie infeft … in ony landis … within certane limitat boundis
b. Circumscribed as to time; assigned (to a person) as a limited time for doing something; having an appointed time-limit.1622-6 Bisset I. 113/11.
[They] sall discourse in Latyne upoun the said text … sic ane competent space as salbe injoyned and limitate to thame be the … lordis 1643 Baillie II. 63.
Bot the houses debates about disbanding, and a limitat cessation, took so much tyme
c. Circumscribed within authoritatively imposed limits of freedom of action, restricted in scope or powers.1587 Acts III. 435/2.
Bot thair said power and jurisdictioun sall remane in the samin estait limitat as the samin is at this present 1638 Aberd. B. Rec. III. 142.
That his commissioun be so limitat that wpoun quhatsumewir respect he presume not to transgres the meanest poynt of his commissioun 1639 Baillie I. 156.
Great inconveniences it [Episcopacy] had ever brought to our Church, and still was most like, limitate as men could best c1650 Spalding I. 241.
Mr. James Sandilandis began to teiche the cannon lawis … as he wes restrictit and limitat be the generall assemblie, viz., to teiche onlie vpone teyndis, testamentis and matrimony 16.. R. Gordon in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 396.
He wes not to succeed to his father … conforme to the fundamental lawis of the realme, but a power limitat be them, as the papers testifie, wherein they … reduce the succession to election
d. Circumscribed, limited, restricted, more generally.1581-1623 James VI Poems I. 17/41.
Translations are limitat, and restraind in some things, more then free inuentions are 1626 Garden Worthies 84.
Who for there countrie … doe fight, Bot limitat and measur'd glorie gains
