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/sˌərkəmskrˈaɪbd/ Listen

verb

Circumscribe v. t. (past & past part. circumscribed; pres. part. circumscribing)

To write or engrave around. (R.) "Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph."

To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. "To circumscribe royal power."

(Geom.) To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.

Synonyms: To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Circumscribed" Quotes from Famous Books

... Old Bailey stood Sydney-house, known by the white front, and the recess in which it is concealed; and here Jonathan Wild is said to have lived the greatest part of his time. The north side of Newgate consists of two court-yards, which are far too circumscribed for the numerous inhabitants, this prison always exhibiting a multitudinous calendar of human depravity. The men's court is only 49 feet 6 inches, by 31 feet 6, and the women's of the same length, and about half the width. The whole square is entirely surrounded by the wards, 103 ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... in an aside by the sickening quality of Mrs. Sinkler's coals and Mr. Macbrose's kindling-wood, to say nothing of the insulting draft in the draper's range. When she left the room, I suppose she was unable to explain the peals of laughter that rang through our circumscribed halls. ...

— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... approach of naked feet across the sward. At first he suspected that it might be one stealthily searching the Forbidden Garden for him but a little later the figure came within the limited area of his vision which was circumscribed by stems and foliage and flowers. He saw then that it was the princess O-lo-a and that she was alone and walking with bowed head as though in meditation—sorrowful meditation for there were traces of tears ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... the boundaries of its course, was, I have no doubt, generally covered with its waters. After the ocean left the land, and the hills became the depositaries of the clouds, how many ages must have elapsed before the beds of rivers were circumscribed as we now see them in England. The water always followed the lowest level, but, being of different quantities at different seasons, vegetation would flourish on the sides occasionally covered, and in time would generate ...

— A Morning's Walk from London to Kew • Richard Phillips

... be circumscribed by local limits belongs to bodies only; whereas to be circumscribed by essential limits belongs to all creatures, both corporeal and spiritual. Hence Ambrose says (De Spir. Sanct. i, 7) that "although some things are not contained in corporeal place, still they are none the less circumscribed ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

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