Bound; border; utmost extent; the part that terminates a thing; as the limit of a town, city or empire; the limits of human knowledge.

The thing which bounds; restraint.

Limits, the extent of the liberties of a prison.

To bound; to set bounds to.

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.Psalm 78:41.

To restrain from a lax or general signification. World sometimes signifies the universe, and sometimes its signification is limited to this earth.