circumscribe
verb (used with object)
to draw a line around; encircle.
uncircumscribed
-
a word derived from
circumscribe.
Example Sentences
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Mick’s nonconformity is toxic, uncircumscribed; Alma’s is useful.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 8, 2016
Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display, with as little mixture of the alien and external as possible?
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014
Critics are also exercised by the virtually uncircumscribed power the financial elite wield both in industrial and political circles.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2010
Prior therefore to that which is formal is the uncircumscribed, and undistributed into forms.
From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor
There are few Words in the English Language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed Sense than those of the Fancy and the Imagination.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
