ppl. a. [f. BOUND v.1 + -ED.] That has bounds or limits; that has its limits marked. Also with instrumental sb., as in horizon-bounded. † b. (quot. 1685, American.) ? Marked so as to serve for a boundary. Obs.
c. 1600. Jas. I., Sonn., in Farr’s S. P. (1848), 1. The bounded waves, and fishes of the seas.
1685. Col. Rec. Penn., I. 128. Such as Cutt or fall Marked or bounded trees.
1756. Burke, Subl. & B., Wks. 1842, I. 43. Progression … alone can stamp on bounded objects the character of infinity.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. xxxi. Immense horizon-bounded plains succeed.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., xlvi. O Love, thy province were not large, A bounded field.
1881. Maxwell, Electr., I. 16. Bounded surfaces are limited by one or more closed lines.
c. fig. Limited, circumscribed.
1709. Pope, Ess. Crit., 221. The bounded level of our mind.
1827. Hallam, Const. Hist. (1876), II. x. 255. A king of England could succeed only to a bounded prerogative.
1865. M. Arnold, Ess. Crit., i. (1865), 14. In some directions Burke’s view was bounded.
