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noun

Limiter n.

One who, or that which, limits.

A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district. (Formerly written also limitour) "A limitour of the Gray Friars, in the time of his limitation, preached many times, and had but one sermon at all times."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Adam[138]: and hath apointed and defined the boundes of their habitation to diuerse nations, assigning diuers countries as he him selfe confesseth, speaking to Israel in these wordes[139]: You shal passe by the boundes and limiter, of your bretheren the sonnes of Esau, who dwell in mount Seir. They shall feare you. But take diligent hede, that ye shewe not your selues cruell against them. For I will geue you no part of their land. No not the bredth of a foote. For mount Seir I haue geuen to ...

— The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment - of Women • John Knox

... whole dilemma revolves pragmatically about the notion of the world's possibilities. Intellectually, rationalism invokes its absolute principle of unity as a ground of possibility for the many facts. Emotionally, it sees it as a container and limiter of possibilities, a guarantee that the upshot shall be good. Taken in this way, the absolute makes all good things certain, and all bad things impossible (in the eternal, namely), and may be said to transmute the entire category of possibility into categories ...

— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James

... lies just S. of the Limiter Bank, and which may be a continuation of it, extends from a point E. by N. from Scituate buoy to a point SE. by S. from the same about 10 or 11 miles and furnishes cod fishing in February, beginning at Brewers ...

— Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine • Walter H. Rich