Verb

(circumscrib)

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= 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.

Verb

(assuag)

To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).

* Addison

Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage .

* Burke

to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man

* Byron

the fount at which the panting mind assuages / her thirst of knowledge

* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.

To pacify or soothe (someone).

(obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.