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▪ I. circumscript, a. Now rare.|ˈsɜːkəmskrɪpt|
Also 8 circon-.
[ad. L. circumscrīpt-us pa. pple. of circumscrībere: see circumscribe.]
1. Limited, circumscribed.
1564Becon Certain Art. Chr. Relig. Proved (1844) 454 The Holy Ghost..hath not a circumscript substance. 1624F. White Reply Fisher 410 It is not circumscript, palpable, or situated in one particular place at once. 1705J. Lasage in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1977 A Circonscript hard Swelling. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 152 Spatangus..Ambulacra circumscript.
†2. Encompassed. Obs.
1610Healey Vive's Comment. St. Aug. City of God 296 Beauty, not circumscript with a forme of mortality.
▪ II. † circumscript, n. Obs. rare.
[see prec.]
? Circumscribed space, bound, limit.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, xlviii, Man may be happy in the Circumscripts Of Individuall, but Glory drawes Its Channel from moe heads. |