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Definition of Circumscribe
1. Verb. Draw a line around. "He drew a circle around the points"
2. Verb. Restrict or confine,. "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
Specialized synonyms: Hold Down, Keep Down, Number, Cap, Curb, Curtail, Cut Back, Restrict, Delimit, Delimitate, Demarcate, Content, Ration
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Lessen, Minify
Derivative terms: Circumscription, Limit, Limitation, Limitation, Limitation, Limitation
3. Verb. To draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect.
Generic synonyms: Delineate, Describe, Draw, Line, Trace
Derivative terms: Circumscription
Definition of Circumscribe
1. v. t. to write or engrave around.
Definition of Circumscribe
1. Verb. To draw a line around; to encircle. ¹
2. Verb. To limit narrowly; to restrict. ¹
3. Verb. (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Circumscribe
1. [v -SCRIBED, -SCRIBING, -SCRIBES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumscribe
Literary usage of Circumscribe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"To limit, confine, and circumscribe all convey the idea of an action more or ...
To circumscribe is to limit arbitrarily, or to bring within improper or ..."
2. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"Their plan was to unite Canada and Louisiana by a chain of forts, and to circumscribe
the English colonies within that tract of country which lies between ..."
3. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"What fancied Zone can circumscribe the soul, EG73. Rise, my soull on wings of
fire, Vit. 17. Prop? 8. •(•Nature in my Soul implanted: Ode 2. ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry by Benjamin Peirce (1837)
"To circumscribe a Circle about a Regular Polygon. 221. Corollary. Hence, regular
polygons of 30, 60, 120, &c. sides may, by arts. 210 and 211, be inscribed ..."
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