circumscription

circumscription
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Limitation
Nouns
1. circumscription, circumjacence; limitation, enclosure; confinement, restraint; bound, limit, boundary. See circuit.
2. (circumscribing object) zone, belt, cordon, band; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet.
Verbs — circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, enclose; [en]circle, girth, gird, surround, compass about, close in, immure; imprison, restrict, restrain; wall in, fence in, hem in, hedge round; picket, pen, corral, enkraal; enclose, embrace, wrap or tie up; besiege (See attack).
Adjectives — circumscribed, begirt, lapped, buried or immersed in; hemmed in, pent in or up, mewed up; immured, imprisoned; landlocked, seagirt.
Adverbs — out of bounds.
Antonyms, See freedom, space.
II
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act of limiting or condition of being limited: confinement, constraint, limitation, restraint, restriction. See LIMITED. 2. Something that limits or restricts: check, constraint, cramp2, curb, inhibition, limit, limitation, restraint, restriction, stricture, trammel. See LIMITED.

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