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Antonyms for circumscribe

Grammar : Verb
Spell : sur-kuhm-skrahyb, sur-kuhm-skrahyb
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɜr kəmˌskraɪb, ˌsɜr kəmˈskraɪb


Definition of circumscribe

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Latin circumscribere "to make a circle around, encircle, draw a line around; limit, restrain, confine, set the boundaries of," from circum- "around" (see circum-) + scribere "write" (see script (n.)). Related: Circumscribed; circumscribing.
  • verb mark off, delimit
Example sentences :
  • The first step to be taken must be to endeavour to circumscribe their limits.
  • Extract from : « Beric the Briton » by G. A. Henty
  • A new spirit has now gone abroad which no walls can bound or circumscribe.
  • Extract from : « Revisiting the Earth » by James Langdon Hill
  • I know what you mean, but I do not intend to allow any duty to circumscribe my art.
  • Extract from : « The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop » by Hamlin Garland
  • It was his professed object to restrain Russia, and to circumscribe her limits.
  • Extract from : « The American Quarterly Review » by Various
  • To circumscribe their power a new army of Mamelukes was formed, called the Borgis.
  • Extract from : « Caesar's Column » by Ignatius Donnelly
  • He showed some symptoms of a wish to circumscribe the Middle Ages—to stint them of colour and romance.
  • Extract from : « A Likely Story » by William De Morgan
  • Their opponents accepted the issue, and resolved to circumscribe the duke's inordinate powers.
  • Extract from : « History of the Rise of the Huguenots » by Henry Baird
  • A rigid law of settlement, intended to circumscribe their area of density closely, yields only to the persuasion of bribery.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 » by Various
  • It was enough for Washington to hold fast to the great objects he had in view, to check Clinton and circumscribe his movements.
  • Extract from : « George Washington, Vol. I » by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • And yet we must undertake to circumscribe thereto God himself!
  • Extract from : « The Essays of Montaigne, Complete » by Michel de Montaigne

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