The word "circumscribe" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of restricting something, or limiting it within certain boundaries. For example, "The new laws will circumscribe the powers of local governments."
I did not know then, of course, that Richmal Crompton's creation had been famed for his cavalier attitude to life and those who would seek to circumscribe his enjoyment of it ever since he first appeared in 1922.
But the suspicious will wonder whether weak national backstops may circumscribe the ECB's willingness to get tough.
This debate is concerned with the philosophical concept of what a species is, and the impact that DNA sequence data is having on how we circumscribe species.
Today, though, the lines which divide the country, not those which circumscribe it, matter most.
"Within weeks", he promised, some of the restrictions that circumscribe Cubans' daily lives would be lifted.
Better to formalise and circumscribe their role.In his eulogy, Lee Hsien Loong made clear that his father's continued presence in the cabinet was not friction-free.
They will surely circumscribe their new domestic spooks with all sorts of privacy laws that will make their job extraordinarily difficult.As for profiling, an increasing number of people seem to think there is a big difference between policemen picking on speeding black drivers and spies targeting Arabs who might harbour plans to set off nuclear bombs.
It involves the supposedly imminent lifting of restrictions that circumscribe foreign ownership of Gazprom shares.
Britain also wants to circumscribe majority voting in criminal law; has misgivings about creating a European public prosecutor; and wants more legal language to ensure that the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which makes up part two of the treaty, will not affect British domestic law.
Annuli (primary grooves) in the skin encircle the body and form segments; in some taxonomic groups, secondary and tertiary grooves partially circumscribe the body.
Herophilus (flourished c. 300 bc), a famous physician of the Greek medical school of Alexandria, had sought to circumscribe its habitat to the fourth ventricle of the brain; that is, to a small area immediately above the brain stem.
