Verb
to write or engrave around.
To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.
To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. Frances Wright
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. Samuel Richardson
I limit you to two visits to the pub a day Source: Internet
please confine your questions to the topic Source: Internet
our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born Source: Internet
He drew a circle around the points Source: Internet