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Circumscribed

adjective

Subject to limits or subjected to limits. Synonym: limited.

Circumscribe

verb

(past & past part. circumscribed; pres. part. circumscribing)

Draw a line around.

Restrict or confine,. Synonyms: confine, limit.

To draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect.

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"Circumscribed" Quotes from Famous Books

... were not firing and the gunners were in a little circumscribed world of their own, dissociated from the movement around them as they busily dug pits for their ammunition. In due course someone might tell them to begin registering on a certain point or to turn loose on one which they had already registered. ...

— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... traveller who traverses the immeasurable deserts of America, when fortunately he obtains a hut wherein to shelter himself; in those moments he certainly enjoys himself; nor does he then complain of its being too small. It is indeed the lot of man to be always circumscribed to a narrow space, even when he wanders over the most extensive regions; even when the huge sea envelops him all around, and wraps him close to its bosom, in the act, as it were, of swallowing him up in a moment: still he is separated from all the circumjacent immensity ...

— Travels in England in 1782 • Charles P. Moritz

... out of the room. This is his own word. Bounded! He assured me with intensified solemnity that he bounded; and the sight of the short and muscular Fyne bounding gravely about the circumscribed passages and staircases of a small, very high class, private hotel, would have been worth any amount of money to a man greedy of memorable impressions. But as I looked at him, the desire of laughter at my very lips, I asked myself: how many men could be found ready ...

— Chance • Joseph Conrad

... into tribes, more or less numerous, according to circumstances, and designated from the localities they inhabit; for although universally a wandering race with respect to places of habitation, their wanderings are circumscribed by certain well-defined limits, beyond which they seldom pass, except for purposes of war or festivity. In short, every tribe has its own district, the boundaries of which are well known to the natives generally; and ...

— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre

... his sweetheart is of no importance. Men are so circumscribed in their utterances—so tongue-tied in love. They all say one thing; so it need not be set down here what Bob Hendricks said. It was what the king said to the queen, the prince to the princess, the duke to the lady, the gardener to the maid, the troubadour to his dulcinea. And ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

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