Bible Dictionaries
Circumscribe

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.

(2):

(v. t.) To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.

(3):

(v. t.) to write or engrave around.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Circumscribe'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/circumscribe.html. 1828.