[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.
