Circumscribe - 12/11/19 A Word A Day

circumscribe - 12/11/19 A Word A Day verb (used with object), cir·cum·scribed, cir·cum·scrib·ing. to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map. to enclose within bounds; limit or confine, especially narrowly: Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations. to mark off; define; delimit: to circumscribe the area of a science. Geometry. to draw (a figure) around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible.     (of a figure) to enclose (another figure) in this manner.