Circumscribe

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt to write or engrave around.

II. Circumscribe ·vt To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. ·see Inscribe, 5.

III. Circumscribe ·vt To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to Surround; to Bound; to Confine; to Restrain.