Verbs

(v)circumscribedraw a line around“another circle is circumscribed about the square”
(v)limit, circumscribe, confine torestrict or confine within limits“I limit you to two visits to the pub a day”, “please confine your questions to the topic”, “our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born”
(v)circumscribeto draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect