LIMITA'TION, noun [Latin limitatio.] 1. The act of bounding or circumscribing. 2. Restriction; restraint; circumscription. The king consented to a limitation of his prerogatives. Government by the limitation of natural rights secures civil liberty. 3. Restriction; confinement from a lax indeterminate import. Words of general import are often to be understood with limitations. 4. A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg or exercise their functions.
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