▪ I. circumscribing, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb circumscribe.
| 1660 Milton Free Commw. (1851) 438 To defer the changing or circumscribing of our Senat. |
▪ II. circumscribing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That circumscribes; limiting, restricting, encompassing, etc. (see the verb); spec. in Geom.
| 1571 Digges Pantom. iv. Def. 9. T ij, The circumscribing or contayning circle. 1664 H. More Myst. Iniq. 90 Circumscribing circumstances that cannot belong to any succession of men, but were proper to the Apostles. 1846 Poe Cask Amontillado Wks. 1864 I. 350 Circumscribing walls of solid granite. |