Middle English Dictionary Entry
limite n.
Entry Info
| Forms | limite n. Also limit, lemit. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A boundary of a country or district, a frontier; (b) pl. the terms of a civil or religious law; (c) a limit; (d) math. a position in the decimal numeration.
Associated quotations
a
- (1439) Proc.Privy C.5.358 : The cuntre comprised within tho that be now called the landes and the limites of the reme of France be grete and populus.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5038 : Ouire þe lemetis of þir lindis may no lede founde.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5069 : Qua list þis lymit ouir-lende, lene to þe left hand.
- a1450 St.Etheldr.(Fst B.3)61 : Þe lymytys of þis kyndam þey streyȝthen y-wys From þe water of Dee on þe west-syde Cheyster..Douneby þe water of Seuerne..And euene to Brystowe in-to þe sowthe-see.
- (1461) RParl.5.473b : Al manere Tithes..within the fines and lymytes of hir Parisshes.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)89/31 : They graunted the said tythes to be sette with-in the lymytes of ther parissh of wycombe.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)575/21 : They were within the lymytes and markes of the said parissh chirch of seynt Petir at the Est of Oxenford.
b
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)362 : Þanne Goddis lawe myȝte freeli renne bi þe lymytis þat Crist haþ ordeyned.
- (1474) RParl.6.116b : Yevyng the same Commyssioners auctorite and power to assesse, lymyte, and appoynte a somme certeyne uppon every Cite, Toune, Burgh, Hamell', and other places beyng within the lymytes of their severall Commyssions.
c
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)2.16.41a : God is..mercifull, and of his mercy, as Dauid seth, there may be lymytes non ende to him.
d
- c1450 Art Number.(Ashm 396)34/18 : Ther ben 9 lymytes of figures that representen the 9 digites.