circumscription

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CIRCUMSCRIPTION, noun 1. The line that limits; limitation; bound; confinement. 2. In natural philosophy, the termination or limits of a body; the exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body. 3. A circular inscription.
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