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Example sentences for "circumscribe"

Lexicographically close words:
circumnavigation; circumnavigator; circumoral; circumpolar; circumscissile; circumscribed; circumscribes; circumscribing; circumscription; circumspect
  1. Without permitting prejudice to circumscribe judgment in treating of Russia, the effort has been to represent the condition of that country and its Polish province truthfully, and to draw only reasonable deductions.

  2. Here is the change beginning, here the lines Circumscribe beauty, set to bliss The limit time assigns.

  3. It should facilitate and ensure the just retribution of men's acts; in other words, it should circumscribe solidarity, and organize reaction in order to enforce responsibility.

  4. We see that men are constantly in quest of a fixed and stable position, and that there is an incessant effort to diminish and circumscribe on all sides the element of uncertainty.

  5. We shall seek farther on to circumscribe as exactly as possible its real extension.

  6. A circle of an inch diameter has the same geometrical properties as a circle that would circumscribe the universe.

  7. Staten Island, York Island, a small part of Long Island, and Rhode Island, circumscribe your power; and even those you hold at the expense of the West Indies.

  8. But our opponents deviate widely from the truth when they acknowledge no Church but what is visible to the corporeal eye, and endeavour to circumscribe it by those limits within which it is far from being included.

  9. And let us not circumscribe the effects of the bucolic and erotic poetry within the limits of the sensibility of those to whom it was addressed.

  10. Let the part of thy soul which leads and governs be undisturbed by the movements in the flesh, whether of pleasure or of pain; and let it not unite with them, but let it circumscribe itself and limit those affects to their parts.

  11. For we must not think that Nature hath so mixed and tempered it with the body, as that she hath not power to circumscribe herself, and by herself to intend her own ends and occasions.

  12. The decrees of Basil continually tended to circumscribe the despotism of the pope, and to erect a supreme and perpetual tribunal in the church.

  13. Of a simple and solid edifice, it is not easy, however, to circumscribe the duration.

  14. The uneven surface of the country, together with the density of the forest, circumscribe the range of vision.

  15. It cannot be concealed, however, that the progress of knowledge and refinement has a tendency to circumscribe the limits of the imagination, and to clip the wings of poetry.

  16. Many persons of good education unconsciously circumscribe themselves within a small vocabulary.

  17. We may seize an Aden and a Perim, where is no already formed community of inhabitants, and circumscribe a tract at will.

  18. The hardest task of every Ard-Righ of this and the previous century had been to circumscribe the ambition of the kings of Cashel within Provincial bounds.

  19. He had voluntarily offered the parliament to circumscribe his own prerogative, and to abrogate, for the future, his power of granting monopolies.

  20. Footnote 1: By what means shall I authenticate this previous inquiry, which I have studied to circumscribe and compress?

  21. Whether he will be able to compress me and circumscribe me, as toward the end of his speech he said was desirable, I do not know.

  22. How can human statutes circumscribe the divine right of a father?


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circumscribe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abate; abbreviate; adjust; alter; assuage; bar; border; bound; box; circle; circumscribe; compact; compress; concentrate; condense; condition; confine; consolidate; constrict; contract; cramp; curtail; decrease; define; delimit; demarcate; determine; diminish; divide; draw; enclose; fence; fix; hedge; hem; imprison; knit; leaven; limit; localize; mitigate; moderate; modify; modulate; narrow; palliate; pucker; purse; qualify; reduce; regulate; restrain; restrict; season; separate; shorten; soften; solidify; specify; stake; stint; strangle; surround; temper; tighten; trammel; wrinkle