Noun : the threshold of a new career. ,the threshold of consciousness; a low threshold of pain. From Dictionary.com.
Although I'm very grateful for your teaching me the word limen anyway. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY.] Reference
The copyeditor, or Crowley himself, whoever it was that failed to get "limen" into the final print run, can be punished later. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY.] Reference
But set it to Australian English and Word accepts limen. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY.] Reference
So I stay between, sheltered by the limen, a step inside a step outside. From Wordnik.com. [Politics in a Liminal State | Living the Liminal] Reference
Iterum si quis caleat super limen stationis Ducis alicuius, interficitur. From Wordnik.com. [The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini] Reference
Subliminal comes, of course, from the Latin sub (below) and limen (lintel). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Ante portam palatij sunt Barones custodientes, ne aliquis limen portæ tangat. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Friar Odoric] Reference
Item si aliquis calcat limen stationis alicuius ducis interficitur eodem modo. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
A limen stalk was placed in the receptacle where the target laser fell on a crosshair. From Wordnik.com. [The Best and The Brightest] Reference
The word ‘Subliminal’ is derived from the latin words sub = below and limen = threshold. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Food Network doing subliminal advertising] Reference
Invifes patrium limen, emantior Iniignes animi quaerere copias ». From Wordnik.com. [Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina] Reference
This is from the Latin words sub, meaning under, and limen, meaning threshold. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Perlege. nunc superum limen scinditur, nunc adest exitium Ilio, turbat equos lepide ligneus. From Wordnik.com. [Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives] Reference
Temnere opes, pretium fceleris, patriamque tueri Fortis, ades; dbi fponte patet venerabile limen. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
In riuale oculos alter, ut hoste, tenet. ille grauis urbis, hic durae limen amicae. From Wordnik.com. [Love and War] Reference
The dreaded limen stalk!. From Wordnik.com. [The Best and The Brightest] Reference
'Inque suo nullum limine limen erat'. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Candidus insuetum miratur limen Olympi. From Wordnik.com. [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1] Reference
Hunc subeas librum Sansti ceu limen asyli. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Poems] Reference
Non limen Euri, non Zephyri dabit. From Wordnik.com. [Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina] Reference
Candidus infuetum miratur limen Olympi. From Wordnik.com. [P. Virgilii Maronis Opera] Reference
Narrat immerfam prope limen urbis Flumine cymbam. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
Nutrices extra limen Apuliæ. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Altricis extra limen Apuliæ. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays] Reference
Altricis extra limen Apuliae. From Wordnik.com. [Spectator, June 7, 1711] Reference
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