Roget's Thesaurus

#229. Circumscription

Nouns

circumscription, limitation, inclosure; confinement etc. (restraint) 751; circumvallation; encincture; envelope etc. 232. container (receptacle) 191.

Verbs

circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround etc. 227; compass about; imprison etc. (restrain) 751; hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, fence in, hedge round; picket; corral. enfold, bury, encase, incase, pack up, enshrine, inclasp; wrap up etc. (invest) 225; embay, embosom. containment(inclusion) 76.

Adjectives

circumscribed etc. v.; begirt, lapt; buried in, immersed in; embosomed, in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed up; imprisoned etc. 751; landlocked, in a ring fence.