What is the meaning of the word "circumscribe"?

Definitions:

  1. to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect copy to clipboard verb
    • I circumscribed the triangle with a circle. copy to clipboard
  2. to restrict or confine copy to clipboard verb
    • The inmate's behavior was circumscribed by the institution's regulations and the guards' whims. copy to clipboard

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