circumscribed

English

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Verb

circumscribed

  1. simple past and past participle of circumscribe

Adjective

circumscribed (comparative more circumscribed, superlative most circumscribed)

  1. Limited narrowly; restricted.
    • 2013, John Rentoul, Tony Blair: Prime Minister, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
      Blair brought out the febrile intensity of Stanhope, wiring himself into his ever more circumscribed troglodyte world, speculating moodily on the worm that went down when it thought it was coming up. Robert Philp thought Blair's ...

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