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noun

Circumscription n.

An inscription written around anything. (R.)

The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.

The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. "The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature." "I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine."

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Etymology of 'Circumscription'

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"Circumscription" Quotes from Famous Books

... more than the thought of eternal circumscription;—there is also the idea of being perpetually penetrated, traversed, thrilled by the Nameless;—there is likewise the certainty that no least particle of innermost secret Self could shun the eternal touch of It;—there is furthermore the tremendous conviction that could ...

— The Romance of the Milky Way - And Other Studies & Stories • Lafcadio Hearn

... may stand best with verisimilitude and decorum; they only will best judge who are not unacquainted with Aeschulus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three Tragic Poets unequall'd yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write Tragedy. The circumscription of time wherein the whole Drama begins and ends, is according to antient rule, and best example, within the ...

— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton

... then in his thirty-fourth year, was appointed to the office of Intendant in the Generality of Limoges. There were three different divisions of France in the eighteenth century: first and oldest, the diocese or ecclesiastical circumscription; second, the province or military government; and third, the Generality, or a district defined for fiscal and administrative purposes. The Intendant in the government of the last century was very much what the Prefect is in the government of our own time. ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Turgot • John Morley

... converted, built churches for their families and their vassals. For the maintenance of ministers, they settled a certain portion of their lands; and a district, through which each minister was required to extend his care, was, by that circumscription, constituted a parish. This is a position so generally received in England, that the extent of a manor and of a parish are regularly received for each other. The churches which the proprietors of ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell

... multiply illustrations. Enough has been said to show that the circumscription of aristocratic privilege and the diffusion of material luxury did not precipitate the millennium. Social Equalization was not synonymous with Social Amelioration. Some improvement, indeed, in the tone ...

— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... escaped destruction, it has been by a combination of great prudence and great good luck. Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the action of his ape-like spite. And indeed the doom that is closing on us both has already changed and crushed him. Half an hour from now, when I shall again and for ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

Words linked to "Circumscription" : restriction, confinement