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Immure vs Circumscribe - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between immure and circumscribe

is that immure is to cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls while circumscribe is to draw a line around; to encircle.

As a noun immure

is a wall; an enclosure.

immure

English

Verb

  • To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
  • * 1799 , , Elle?mere: A Novel , Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219–220:
    • The gentlemen looked at each other for a ?olution of this ?trange event, each pre?uming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.
  • * 1880 , , Preface,
    • In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured . The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.
  • * 1914', '', in ''The Single Hound'', republished 1924, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (introduction), '' The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson ,
    • Immured in Heaven! / What a Cell! / Let every Bondage be, / Thou sweetest of the Universe, / Like that which ravished thee!
  • * 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “ A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers]”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems , Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), [http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/lcp1&id=75&terms=immured&collection=journals page 71:
    • This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.
  • To put or bury within a wall.
    • John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
  • * 1906 , , The Book of Days , Volume 1, page 807,
    • The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.
  • (transitive, crystallography, and, geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity);
  • * 1975 , , American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography , Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,
    • On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.

    Synonyms

    * (imprison) cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate * (bury) inter

    Derived terms

    * immured

    Related terms

    * immurement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.
    • (Shakespeare)

    circumscribe

    English

    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.

    • Derived terms

    * circumscription

    Related terms

    * -scribe