a. ? Obs. [ad. F. liminaire, ad. L. līmināris, f. līmin-, līmen: see -ARY2.] Introductory, preparatory; = PRELIMINARY.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, III. xii. (1632), 595. I need but the liminary epistle [= F. epistre liminaire] of a Germane to store me with allegations.

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1661.  Blount, Glossogr., Liminarie.

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1663.  Flagellum or O. Cromwell, 188. As the grand and Liminary work to Oliver’s Regality.

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1898.  C. Grant Robertson, in Blackw. Mag., Oct., 518/2. With … its epistles liminary and ultimate.

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