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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Circumscribed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Circumscribing

[L.

circumscribere

-scriptum

;

circum + scribere

to write, draw. See

to write or engrave around.

[R.]

Thereon is

circumscribed

this epitaph.

Ashmole.

To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.

circumscribe

royal power.

Bancroft.

Syn. – To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass.

, v.t.

To inclose within a certain limit; to limit, bound, confine.

You are above the little forms which circumscribe your sex.

To write round.