Circumscription synonyms

sʉrkəmskrip′shən

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confinement
The definition of confinement is the action or state of being contained or kept in a place or situation.
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constraint
(Mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
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limitation
A restriction.
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restraint
Control of the expression of one's feelings; constraint:
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restriction
A restricting or being restricted
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check
The definition of a check is a sudden stop or a person or thing that restrains or controls.
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cramp
A metal bar bent to form a right angle at each end, for holding together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.
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curb
(North America) A row of concrete along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK)
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inhibition
(Psychology) a personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
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limit
(Mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
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stricture
(Usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
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trammel
An arrangement of links and a hook in a fireplace for raising and lowering a kettle.
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limited (related)
A limited train or bus.
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entailment (related)
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reducibility (related)
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predication (related)
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Circumscription Sentence Examples

  • The town, which is the seat of an archbishop and court of appeal, and the centre of an academie (educational circumscription), numbers among its public institutions a court of assizes, tribunals of first instance and of commerce, and a chamber of arts and manufactures.

  • By bulls of circumscription, issued after consultation with various Protestant states of Germany, he rearranged their Catholic dioceses and readjusted ecclesiastical incomes.

  • In May 1869 he was returned to the Assembly, both by the first circumscription of Paris and by Marseilles, defeating Hippolyte Carnot for the former constituency and Thiers and Lesseps for the latter.

  • Aveyron belongs to the 16th military region, and to the academie or educational circumscription of Toulouse.

  • Thus while the emperor, as king of Prussia, is summus episcopus of the Prussian Evangelical Church, as emperor he enjoys no such ecclesiastical headship. In the several states the relations of church and state differ fundamentally according as these states are Protestant or Catholic. In the latter these relations are regulated either by concordats between the governments and the Holy See, or by bulls of circumscription issued by the pope after negotiation.

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