circumscribe

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

verb transitive

P. and V. ὁρίζειν; see limit.

starting from ground that was not narrow and circumscribed: P. οὐκ ἐκ βραχέος καὶ περιγραπτοῦ ὁρμώμενοι (Thuc. 7, 49).