Definition of Limitrophe

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Limitrophe

limiting factor
limiting layers of cornea
limiting membrane of retina
limiting sulcus
limiting sulcus of Reil
limiting sulcus of rhomboid fossa
limitingly
limitings
limitive
limitless
limitlessly
limitlessness
limitlessnesses
limitour
limitours
limitrophe (current term)
limits
limits inferior
limits superior
limivorous
limma
limmas
limmers
limn
limn-
limnaeid
limnaeids
limnaemia
limnaemic

Literary usage of Limitrophe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Problems of Greater Britain by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1890)
"The word which we render "conterminous is th«; diplomatic word "limitrophe, ' and it must be noted that ... Japan were " limitrophe. ..."

2. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"... it is understood that at lower rates all limitrophe correspondence and at equal rates half the limitrophe correspondence shall be forwarded via the line ..."

3. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"... it is understood that at lower rates all limitrophe correspondence and at equal rates half the limitrophe correspondence shall be forwarded via the line ..."

4. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Edward Hertslet (1891)
"Emigrants from limitrophe Provinces. 4. As was stipulated in the Firman of 1249* (No. 169), Servia shall be bound to send back home all emigrants from the ..."

5. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1848)
"... their polar limitrophe parallel,* the trees were well-grown and healthy, ... southward of the limitrophe parallel he assigns to the tree in question. ..."

6. Hertslet's China Treaties: Treaties, &c. Between Great Britain and China by Edward Hertslet, Godfrey Edward Proctor Hertslet, Edward Parkes, China, Great Britain (1908)
"... it is understood that at lower rates all limitrophe correspondence and at equal rates half the limitrophe correspondence shall be forwarded via the line ..."

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