OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 27751

circumscribe

/ˈsɜː.kəm.skɹaɪb/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
circunscribir
To draw a line around; to encircle.
circunscribir
To limit narrowly; to restrict.
"Well, I promise you to circumscribe her conquests as much as possible by extending my own," returned Henrietta. "It will be an easy task; for Miss Churchill does not do 'the honou…
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on th…