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单词 circumscript
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circumscriptn.

Etymology: see circumscript adj.
Obsolete. rare.
? Circumscribed space, bound, limit.
ΚΠ
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV xlviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 13 Man may be happy in the Circumscripts Of Individuall, but Glory drawes Its Channel from moe heads.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

circumscriptadj.

/ˈsəːkəmskrɪpt/
Forms: Also 1700s circon-.
Etymology: < Latin circumscrīptus past participle of circumscrībere : see circumscribe v.
Now rare.
1. Limited, circumscribed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [adjective] > having boundary
terminatea1500
circumscriptible?1550
circumscript1564
circumscriptive1564
boundedc1600
limitatec1600
disterminate?1615
circumscribed1739
space-bound1934
1564 T. Becon Certain Articles Christian Relig. (1844) 454 The Holy Ghost..hath not a circumscript substance.
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 410 It is not circumscript, palpable, or situated in one particular place at once.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1977 A Circonscript hard Swelling.
1856–8 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 152 Spatangus..Ambulacra circumscript.
2. Encompassed. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adjective] > surrounded
purseynta1400
umberunc1440
circumdate1460
cinct?a1475
succinct?a1475
circledc1540
circumferat1575
circumscript1610
environed1610
encircled1632
precinct1641
circumcinct1656
cinctured1757
begirt1791
begirdled1813
compassed1860
surrounded1891
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. ix. 312 Beauty, not circumscript with a forme of mortality.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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