circumscript

[ sur-kuhm-skript ]

adjective

1. Rare. limited or confined.
2. Obsolete. enclosed or encompassed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of circumscript¹

1640–50; < Latin circumscrīptus, past participle of circumscrībere to circumscribe; circum-, script

Example Sentences

Of the circumscript it is likewise true, if the circumscript be understood to be a circle.

From Project Gutenberg

For the perpendiculars from the center a, unto the sides of the circumscript, by the 9 e xij, shal make triangles on each side equilaters, & equiangls, by drawing the semidiameters unto the corners, as in the same exāple.

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Magnitudes are described betweene themselves, one with another, when the bounds of the one are bounded within the boundes of the other: That which is within, is called the inscript: and that which is without, the Circumscript.

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This letter, sealed with the three wicket-gates and the circumscript, Entra per me, he sent forward at once by a party of six riders, one of whom carried a flag of truce.

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