borner
Meanings
Verb
1. to limit, confine
2. to confine oneself (à faire to doing something) (pronominal)
3. to content oneself (pronominal)
Examples3
Tes grands Destins / ne le borneront pas chez les peuples Latins
Your [Rome's] great destiny / Shall not confine it [the Roman state] to the Latin peoples
Tout homme a vu le mur qui borne son esprit.
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
Je n'affabule en rien et me borne ici a transcrire ce qu'ils m'ont enseigné.
I am not making up anything and I am restraining myself to transcribe what they taught me.