a. and sb. [f. LIMIT sb. + -arian as in unitarian, etc.] A designation applied by adversaries to those theologians who hold the doctrine of ‘limited redemption.’
1844. J. Cairns, Lett., in Life, x. (1895), 228. Graham is somewhat delayed in licence by a limitarian presbytery.
1848. Craig, Limitarian, one who limits, one who maintains the doctrine, that only a part of the human race are to be saved.
1852. J. B. Johnstone (title), Who are the Limitarians?
