Origin: Latin prefix circum-
Circumscribe has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
restrict or confine within limits
"I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
"please confine your questions to the topic"
"our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born"
to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
To draw a line around; to encircle.