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.