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Definition of Circumscription

Circumscription
Circumscription Cir`cum*scrip"tion, n. [L. circumscriptio. See Circumscribe.] 1. An inscription written around anything. [R.] --Ashmole. 2. The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery. --Ray. 3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. --Johnson. I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine. --Shak.

Meaning of Circumscription from wikipedia

- up cir****scription in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cir****scription may refer to: Cir****scribed circle Cir****scription (logic) Cir****scription (taxonomy)...
- Look up cir****scription in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In biological taxonomy, cir****scription is the content of a taxon, that is, the delimitation...
- The cir****scription theory is a theory of the role of warfare in state formation in political anthropology, created by anthropologist Robert Carneiro...
- Cir****scription is a non-monotonic logic created by John McCarthy to formalize the common sense ****umption that things are as expected unless otherwise...
- biological classification, cir****scriptional names (Latin: nomina cir****scribentia) are taxon names that are defined by their cir****scription; i.e. the diagnostic...
- situation turned the departments into de facto regional government cir****scriptions. The first regional governments were elected on November 20, 2002....
- is called Mandragora autumnalis, the autumn mandrake. In a broader cir****scription, all the plants native to the regions around the Mediterranean Sea...
- complex and not yet fully resolved at present. In particular the exact cir****scription of the genus, especially the inclusion of the New World species (Saerorhinum)...
- classifies and describes a species has the task of taxonomic cir****scription. Cir****scription means in essence that anyone competent in the matter can tell...
- subject to considerable changes. In particular, there is a narrow cir****scription, Aspleniaceae s.s. (adopted here), in which the family contains only...