Also 7 bundary. [f. BOUND sb.1 + -ARY1 B 2.] That which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 328. Corruption is a Reciprocall to Generation: And they Two, are as Natures two Termes or Bundaries.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., II. xxiii. (1693), 168. The simple Ideas we receive from Sensation and Reflection, are the Boundaries of our Thoughts.
1751. Johnson, Rambl., No. 178, ¶ 3. Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immoveable boundaries.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. § 6. 43. The dots representing the boundaries of the ridges.
b. attrib., as in boundary-dispute, -line, -mark, -treaty, -wall: also boundary-rider (Australia), one who rides round the fences of a station, and repairs them when broken.
1850. A. Lawrence, Official Desp. to J. M. Clayton. I have said nothing about the *boundary-disputes of Nicaragua and her neighbours.
1842. H. E. Manning, Serm. (1848), I. xii. 167. He that lives on a dubious *boundary-line.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 180. The boundary line which parts the domain of law from that of morality.
1878. Morley, Diderot, 198. The reign of truth was hindered by the artificial *boundary-marks.
1830. Carlyle, in For. Rev. & Cont. Misc., V. 23. These were fair conditions of a *boundary-treaty.
1864. Theol. Rev., March, 11. Between science and theology … it is impossible to build a *boundary-wall.
