Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Circumscription

Circumscription , noun

[Latin circumscriptio. See Circumscribe.]

1.
An inscription written around anything. [Rare] — Ashmole
2.
The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery. — Ray
3.
The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. — Johnson
I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine. — Shakespeare