Now rare. Also 8 circon-. [ad. L. circumscrīpt-us pa. pple. of circumscrībere: see CIRCUMSCRIBE.]
1. Limited, circumscribed.
1564. Becon, Certain Art. Chr. Relig. Proved (1844), 454. The Holy Ghost … hath not a circumscript substance.
1624. F. White, Reply Fisher, 410. It is not circumscript, palpable, or situated in one particular place at once.
1705. J. Lasage, in Phil. Trans., XXV. 1977. A Circonscript hard Swelling.
1856–8. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 152. Spatangus.… Ambulacra circumscript.
† 2. Encompassed. Obs.
1610. Healey, Vive’s Comment. St. Aug. City of God, 296. Beauty, not circumscript with a forme of mortality.
