Word Meanings - CIRCUMSCRIBE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. (more info) 1. to write or engare around. Thereon is

Additional info about word: CIRCUMSCRIBE

To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. (more info) 1. to write or engare around. Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole. 2. To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CIRCUMSCRIBE)

• BOUND Confine
• limit
• circumscribe
• terminate
• restrict
• restrain
• Compass Encompass
• surround
• enclose
• environ
• embrace
• achieve
• effect
• effectuate
• consummate
• complete
• circumvent
• Confine
• Immure
• bound
• imprison
• narrow
• incarcerate
• bind
• Encircle
• Surround
• inti
• hem
• compass
• gird
• engird
• hem in
• beset
• encompass
• Enclose
• Shut
• encircle
• include
• envelop
• wrap
• afforest

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CIRCUMSCRIBE)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Expand
• disband
• unfold
• amplify
• display
• dismiss
• liberate
• discard
• fail
• bungle
• botch
• misconceive
• mismanage
• misconstrue
• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMSCRIBE)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• INCARCERATE
  1. To imprison; to confine in a jail or priso 2. To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia , hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• INTERMINATED
  Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.