Circumcised vs Circumscribed - What's the difference?
circumcised | circumscribed |
(of an man) Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
(of a woman) Having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised.
(circumcise)
(circumscribe)
To draw a line around; to encircle.
To limit narrowly; to restrict.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
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
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*(of a man) see also .Verb
(head)circumscribed
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(head)circumscribe
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(circumscrib)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; […].}}