1. Subject to limits or subjected to limits
   "The CEO operated within a circumscribed set of powers";
   - limited
    
2. (geometry) drawn around another geometric figure so as to touch its vertices
   "A circumscribed circle contains all vertices of the polygon"

1. Restrict or confine within limits
   "our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born";
   - limit, confine to
    
2. Draw a line around
   "another circle is circumscribed about the square"
    
3. (geometry) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
   "He circumscribed a circle around the pentagon"

See also: restricted

Type of: decrease, delineate, describe, draw, lessen, line, minify, trace

Encyclopedia: Circumscribed