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  • Hemmed in, limited, circumscribed, he sees and feels no way of acting except to hate and kill that which he thinks is crushing him.  (source)
    circumscribed = restricted within set limits
  • Above the ceaseless surface they stand--trees, cane, vines--rootless, severed from the earth, spectral above a scene of immense yet circumscribed desolation...  (source)
    circumscribed = to restrict something within set limits
  • Circumscribed as my life was in so many ways, I had to look between the covers of books for news of the world that lay outside my own.  (source)
    Circumscribed = restricted
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  • From the time you were a child, I have lured you into a life that is principally circumscribed by the four walls of this building.†  (source)
  • To circumscribe contact.†  (source)
  • It seemed to have been constructed for no especial use in itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was backed by one of their circumscribing walls of solid granite.  (source)
    circumscribing = encircling or surrounding
  • We pulled onto 1-465, the beltway that circumscribes Indianapolis.†  (source)
    circumscribes = restricts something within set limits; or draws a circle around or surrounds
  • Though I, uncircumscribed myself, retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not, Necessity and Chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.†  (source)
    uncircumscribed = not restricted or encircled
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncircumscribed means not and reverses the meaning of circumscribed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Soon as the place there circumscribeth it, The virtue informative rays round about, As, and as much as, in the living members.†  (source)
    circumscribeth = to restrict something within set limits; or draw a circle around or surround
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She circumscribeth" in older English, today we say "She circumscribes."
  • Old Savannah was a sharply circumscribed, self-contained world.†  (source)
  • At first, Max thought it might be Astaroth's seal; however, instead of the Demon's mark, this circle enclosed twined sheaves of grain that overlapped one another to circumscribe three smaller circles that might have been coins.†  (source)
  • She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.†  (source)
    circumscribing = encircling or surrounding
  • Soon as the place there circumscribes it, the formative virtue rays out around it in like manner, and as much as in the living members.†  (source)
    circumscribes = restricts something within set limits; or draws a circle around or surrounds
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