noun. The act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed.

noun. Something, such as a limit or restriction, that circumscribes.

noun. A circumscribed space or area.

noun. A circular inscription, as on a medallion.

noun. A writing around; a circular inscription.

noun. The act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed; the act of bounding, settling, or defining; limitation; restraint; confinement: as, the circumscription of arbitrary power.

noun. The exterior line which marks the form of a figure or body; periphery: as, the circumscription of a leaf.

noun. An inscription written around anything.

noun. The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.

noun. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.

noun. the act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed

noun. anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area

noun. the definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.

noun. An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.

noun. the act of circumscribing

"Although Paillard's writings do not reveal whether he was aware of growing commercial interest in Magude's riverine soils at the time the mission acquired the two concessions, he anticipated a land rush that gathered pace in the circumscription from the 1920s onward."

confinement  restriction  

cantle  cincture  constitutionalism  division  durbar  

abbreviation  allowance  astriction  astringency  ban