Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Circumscribe
Cirˊcum-scribe′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Circumscribed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Circumscribing
.] 1.
to write or engrave around.
[R.]
Thereon is
circumscribed
this epitaph. Ashmole.
2.
To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.
To
circumscribe
royal power. Bancroft.
Syn. – To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass.
Webster 1828 Edition
Circumscribe
CIRCUMSCRIBE
, v.t.1.
To inclose within a certain limit; to limit, bound, confine.You are above the little forms which circumscribe your sex.
2.
To write round.Definition 2024
circumscribe
circumscribe
English
Various circumscribed quadrilaterals: note the circles.
Verb
circumscribe (third-person singular simple present circumscribes, present participle circumscribing, simple past and past participle circumscribed)
- To draw a line around; to encircle.
- To limit narrowly; to restrict.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
-
- (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
Derived terms
Related terms
- -scribe
Translations
to draw a line around; encircle
|
to limit narrowly; restrict
|
|
to draw a circle, sphere, or higher-dimensional ball
|