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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cir•cum•scribe /ˈsɜrkəmˌskraɪb/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object], -scribed, -scrib•ing. - to draw a line around;
encircle. - to keep or enclose (something) within bounds;
restrict:His powers were carefully circumscribed.
See -scrib-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cir•cum•scribe (sûr′kəm skrīb′, sûr′kəm skrīb′),USA pronunciation v.t., -scribed, -scrib•ing. - to draw a line around;
encircle:to circumscribe a city on a map. - to enclose within bounds;
limit or confine, esp. narrowly:Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations. - to mark off;
define;
delimit:to circumscribe the area of a science. - Mathematics[Geom.]
- 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.
- Latin circumscrībere, equivalent. to circum- circum- + scrībere to write
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged restrict, restrain, check, hamper, hinder.
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