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Webster 1913 Edition
Circumscription
1.
An inscription written around anything.
[R.]
Ashmole.
2.
The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.
Ray.
3.
The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
The
circumscriptions
of terrestrial nature. Johnson.
I would not my unhoused, free condition
Put into
Put into
circumscription
and confine. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Circumscription
CIRCUMSCRIPTION
,Noun.
1.
The line that limits; limitation; bound; confinement.2.
In natural philosophy, the termination or limits of a body; the exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body.3.
A circular inscription.