1. Van Tieghem named a great many genera in 1902, circumscribing them very narrowly.

2. The anchors can be secured to pipe clamps circumscribing the air laterals.

3. There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others.

4. Circumscribe (third-person singular simple present circumscribes, present participle circumscribing, simple past and past participle Circumscribed) To draw a line around; to encircle

5. Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder.