Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 23, 2013-- circumscribe

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Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 23, 2013-- circumscribe

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

circumscribe [sur-kuh m-skrahyb, sur-kuh m-skrahyb]

hear it pronounced

verb, transitive (used with object)

1. to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
2. to enclose within bounds; limit or confine, especially narrowly: Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations.
3. to mark off; define; delimit: to circumscribe the area of a science.
4. Geometry .
a. to draw (a figure) around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible.

Example

b. (of a figure) to enclose (another figure) in this manner.

Synonyms restrict, restrain, check, hamper, hinder.

Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < Latin circumscrībere, equivalent to circum- circum- + scrībere to write

Related forms

cir•cum•scrib•a•ble, adjective
cir•cum•scrib•er, noun
non•cir•cum•scribed, adjective
un•cir•cum•scrib•a•ble, adjective
un•cir•cum•scribed, adjective

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Ted Cruz attempted to circumscribe Obama’s welfare state explosion by trying to defund the non-workable, extremely expensive fiasco known as Obamacare.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Let’s see some homework today, gang!

[Travis T. OJustice]

Good morning!

[Travis T. OJustice]

It’s fun to circumscribe ants with a chalk line they can’t cross, then whip out the old magnifying glass. Muahahahaha.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Hussein's picture, properly ciscumscribed:

[Travis T. OJustice]

Any proper doctor will tell you you always need to perform a circumscription before the curcumcision. Gotta draw the line somewhere!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

You are number one, Travis.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Obama drew a red chalk line in the sand and dared the Syrians to cross it. By the time Assad noticed it, it had blown away.

[faucetman]

Do Kenyans get circumscribed?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++
Correct way to circumscribe our Dear Leader. You are having quite the explosion of creativity this morning, sir.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A Jewish man was asked about being circumcised. He explained that the procedure is done on the eighth day of life.
“Did it hurt?”
“Well, I couldn’t walk for a year.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

I think getting circumscribed is for Muzzies only.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++

Do Kenyans get circumscribed?

Only the Muslims. The Muslim women.

[Travis T. OJustice]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

[count-your-change]

Circumscribe

A circumscribe is a writer for that Las Vegas show Circum Circum.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++ A circumscribe is a writer for that Las Vegas show Circum Circum.

Correct. And their annual meeting is called a circumference.

[count-your-change]

Not fair! I haven’t had my breakfast Bud yet.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Circumscribe.

A staff writer for the Jerusalem Post who covers the circumcision beat.

Circumscribe.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++
I could circumnavigate the globe with all of the circumcision jokes I’ve heard, having misspent my youth as a waiter in the Borscht Belt.