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Latin
Etymology
From circum- + scrībō.
Pronunciation
Verb
circumscrībō (present infinitive circumscrībere, perfect active circumscrīpsī, supine circumscrīptum); third conjugation
- to draw a line around, enclose in a circle, circumscribe
- to enclose, limit, bound, restrain, hem in
- (medicine) to abate, subside
- to deceive, cheat, circumvent, entrap, ensnare
- to defraud, deprive of money
- to declare invalid, annul, invalidate, void
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References
- “circumscribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “circumscribo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- circumscribo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to set bounds to a thing, limit it: terminis circumscribere aliquid