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Adjective: circumscribed  `surkum'skrIbd
  1. Subject to limits or subjected to limits
    - limited
Verb: circumscribe  `surkum'skrIb
  1. Draw a line around
     
  2. Restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
    - limit, confine
     
  3. To draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect

See also: circumscription, restricted

Type of: decrease, delineate, describe, draw, lessen, line, minify, trace

Encyclopedia: Circumscribe

Circumscribed