circumscription (serkumskripshon)

[F. cir conscription = Sp. circunscripcion = Pg. cir cumscripção = It. circonscrizione, The circumscription, cut likewise upon bra , is much Ashmole, Berks hire, I. 142. defaced. 2. The act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed; the act of bounding, settling, or defining; limitation; restraint; confinement: as, the circumscription of arbitrary power. I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumscription and confine. Shak., Othello, i. 2. IMG:content-0460.png:[blocks in formation] You know I have many enemies. It is, therefore, the more nece ary for you to be extremely circumspect in all your behavior, that no advantage may be given to their malevolence. B. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 346.