Circumscribe vs Environ - What's the difference?
circumscribe | environ | Synonyms |
To draw a line around; to encircle.
To limit narrowly; to restrict.
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, title= (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
To surround; to encircle.
* 1673 , ”:
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
* John Donne
As verbs the difference between circumscribe and environ
is that circumscribe is to draw a line around; to encircle while environ is to surround; to encircle.circumscribe
English
Verb
(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; […].}}
Derived terms
* circumscriptionenviron
English
Verb
(en verb)- I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
- By the known rules of antient libertie,
- When strait a barbarous noise environs me
- Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs.
- Dwelling in a pleasant glade, / With mountains round about environed .
- Environed he was with many foes.
- Environ me with darkness whilst I write.