circumscribe
verb (used with object)
to draw a line around; encircle.
have circumscribed
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present perfectof circumscribe.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Had it not been for that, I dare say both you and I would have circumscribed our travels within a very few miles.
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Even the Mohawks themselves, who were once so populous, and such renowned warriors, are now reduced to less than 200 since the European settlements have circumscribed the territories which their ancestors had reserved.
From Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
Some of the outer walls are still extant, and must have circumscribed at least 20 acres.
