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Definition
to restrict something within set limits; or draw a circle around or surround
- Life was cheaper because it was circumscribed: that most expensive luxury, the kind of life that can be changed at any moment, was no longer his nor did he wish for it.Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (61% in)
There are no more uses of "circumscribe" in War and Peace.
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