Circumscribed

ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED¹.]

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1. Limited, confined, restricted: see prec., sense 2.

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1647. Clarendon, Contempl. Ps., Tracts (1727), 447. This restrained and circumscribed estimate of God’s mercies.

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1844. H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, II. 523. The circumscribed extent of the territories.

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2. Having clearly defined limits; in Path. applied spec. to tumors, etc., having well-defined edges.

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1758. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 211. A circumscribed Tumour.

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1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. p. xix. A more than ordinarily well-circumscribed group.

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3. Geom. Of a figure: Described about another.

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1571. Digges, Pantom., IV. Pref. T j. Circumscribed and inscribed bodies.

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1807. Hutton, Course Math., II. 247. As the content of the paraboloid to the content of its circumscribed cylinder.

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