Syn. — To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass.
Circumscriber
(Cir`cum*scrib"er) n. One who, or that which, circumscribes.
Circumscriptible
(Cir`cum*scrip"ti*ble) a. Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
Circumscription
(Cir`cum*scrip"tion) n. [L. circumscriptio. See Circumscribe.]
1. An inscription written around anything. [R.] Ashmole.
2. The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery. Ray.
3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Johnson.
I would not my unhoused, free condition
Put into circumscription and confine.
Shak.
Circumscriptive
(Cir`cum*scrip"tive) a. Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or
form of.
Circumscriptively
(Cir`cum*scrip"tive*ly), adv. In a limited manner.
Circumscriptly
(Cir"cum*script`ly) adv. In a literal, limited, or narrow manner. [R.] Milton.
Circumspect
(Cir"cum*spect) a. [L. circumspectus, p. p. of circumspicere to look about one's self, to
observe; circum + spicere, specere, to look. See Spy.] Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or
the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.
Syn. — See Cautious.
Circumspection
(Cir`cum*spec"tion) n. [L. circumspectio.] Attention to all the facts and circumstances
of a case; caution; watchfulness.
With silent circumspection, unespied.
Milton.
Syn. — Caution; prudence; watchfulness; deliberation; thoughtfulness; wariness; forecast.
Circumspective
(Cir`cum*spec"tive) a. Looking around every way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful
of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.
Circumspectively
(Cir`cum*spec"tive*ly), adv. Circumspectly.
Circumspectly
(Cir"cum*spect"ly) adv. In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.
Circumspectness
(Cir"cum*spect"ness), n. Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.
[Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security.
Sir H. Wotton.
Circumstance
(Cir"cum*stance) n. [L. circumstantia, fr. circumstans, -antis, p. pr. of circumstare to
stand around; circum + stare to stand. See Stand.]
1. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of
things.
The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
W. Irving.
