abate, box in, condition, decrease, draw, hedge about, limit, modify, reduce, set limits, strangle
Definitionv. draw a line around
Last update: July 19, 2015
2
Although I do not wish to circumscribe your activities, I must insist that you complete this assignment before you start anything else. [verb]
0
47, then follow various theorems on the circle, leading up to the problem of the construction of a circle which shall circumscribe three given circles, touching each other two and two. [verb]
0
To circumscribe the influence of the ruling favourites he next suggested the formation of a cabinet council of six or eight ministers, through whom all the business of the state was to be transacted; but Catherine, suspecting in the skilfully presented novelty a subtle attempt to limit her power, rejected it after some hesitation. [verb]
0
For our part, we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. [verb]
0
This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal lines even at the present day. [verb]
0
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be. [verb]
0
4 per cent, demonstrating that tuberculosis may be eradicated from all the herds in a circumscribed area. [Please select]
0
The latter gradually extends in size and depth, forming a sharply circumscribed area of necrotic inflammation. [Please select]
0
It is only the callow young clamoring for food, or complaining of their circumscribed quarters. [Please select]
Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!