Third-person singular present tense of circumscribe; draws a boundary around or restricts within limits.
From Latin circumscribere, third-person singular. Combines circum- (around) + scribere (to write).
When a law circumscribes your rights, it's like drawing a fence around your freedom—you can move, but only within that fence.
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