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单词 circumscribing
释义 I. circumscribing, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb circumscribe.
1660Milton Free Commw. (1851) 438 To defer the changing or circumscribing of our Senat.
II. circumscribing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That circumscribes; limiting, restricting, encompassing, etc. (see the verb); spec. in Geom.
1571Digges Pantom. iv. Def. 9. T ij, The circumscribing or contayning circle.1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 90 Circumscribing circumstances that cannot belong to any succession of men, but were proper to the Apostles.1846Poe Cask Amontillado Wks. 1864 I. 350 Circumscribing walls of solid granite.
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