arcifinious

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  1. Serving both as a boundary and a defense: applied to rivers, mountains, the sea, etc. Wor. Dict.
  2. Having a frontier which forms a natural defense: as, “arcifinious states,” Twiss, Law of Nations, II. 215. N. E. D.

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  1. from Late Latin arcifinius (also arcifinalis), from Latin arx (arci-), a citadel, defense, + finis, plural fines, boundary.
 

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