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circumscribing

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of Circumscribe

Source: Webster's dictionary

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From the point of view of technique, I liked there to be internal lines in objects, I mean that instead of circumscribing forms, they animate the insides of things-the inside of formless and non-delimited areas. They function as internal textures and not primarily as contours. Jean Dubuffet

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct -- not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. Thomas Hardy

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