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单词 limity
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limityn.

Forms: 1500s limities (plural), 1500s lymytee, 1500s lymyties (plural).
Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin līmitēs, līmes.
Etymology: Probably an inferred singular < classical Latin līmitēs, plural of līmes limit n.; compare -y suffix5. Perhaps compare Middle French (rare) limité border, boundary (1458; probably use as noun of limité , past participle of limiter limit v.).
Obsolete.
= limit n.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary
thresholdeOE
randeOE
markeOE
mereOE
limiting1391
march1402
confrontc1430
bourne1523
limity1523
mereing1565
mark-mere1582
ring1598
land-mere1603
limit1655
field boundary1812
landimere1825
section-line1827
wad1869
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s) > border(s)
frontier1413
limitationa1475
skirt1488
limity1523
rind1530
border1535
ambit1597
verges1680
county line1776
land-board1790
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. CCCxiiiv The Englysshmen the same tyme helde in the fronters & lymyties of Auuergne of Quercy and of Lymosyn. [No equivalent word in the Fr. original.]
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccx. [ccvi.] 648 There shulde be in their company of the lymytees of Fraunce, mo then fyue hundred knightes.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Gvii They go not out of ye limities [L. finibus] of their own contrie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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