Hypertext Webster Gateway: "limitour"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Limitour \Lim"it*our\ (-[=oo]r), n.
See {Limiter}, 2.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Limiter \Lim"it*er\ (-[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, limits.

2. A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose
duty was limited to a certain district. [Formerly written
also {limitour}.] --Chaucer.

A limitour of the Gray Friars, in the time of his
limitation, preached many times, and had but one
sermon at all times. --Latimer.


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