Circumscription

1. n. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
2. n. An inscription written around anything.
3. n. The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.