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limbic (adj.)
"pertaining to or characteristic of a border," 1879, in anatomy, in reference to the brain, from French
limbique
(1878, Broca), from
limbe
(14c.), from Latin
limbus
"edge" (see
limb
(n.2)).
Limbic system
is attested from 1950.
