Meaning of circumscribe

(verb) draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points"

restrict 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"

to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect