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To set bounds to, to limit, restrict, confine.
transitive. To set bounds, ends, or limits to, to limit in extent or scope, to confine to certain limits. Now rare. Also, †to fix the maximum price…
To put a stop or limit to. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To limit, restrict, confine to (or in); to circumscribe. Obsolete.
To measure out; to set a limit or bound to (life, etc.). Obsolete.
transitive. To set a limit or bounds to; to bound; to check.