1. (

• circumscribe

) draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points" ;

2. (

• limit ,
• circumscribe ,
• confine_to

) restrict or confine within limits; "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"; "please confine your questions to the topic"; "our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born" ;

3. (

• circumscribe ,

) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect ;

1. (

• circumscribed ,
• limited

) subject to limits or subjected to limits ;