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Circumcised vs Circumscribed - What's the difference?

circumcised | circumscribed |

As verbs the difference between circumcised and circumscribed

is that circumcised is past tense of circumcise while circumscribed is past tense of circumscribe.

As an adjective circumcised

is having had the foreskin of the penis excised.

circumcised

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (of an man) Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
  • (of a woman) Having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised.
  • Synonyms

    *(of a man) see also .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (circumcise)
  • circumscribed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (circumscribe)

  • circumscribe

    English

    Verb

    (circumscrib)
  • To draw a line around; to encircle.
  • To limit narrowly; to restrict.
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  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}
  • (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
  • Derived terms

    * circumscription