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What does circumscription mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed.
  2. Anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area.
  3. (taxonomy) The definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.
  4. An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.
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A deacon already incardinated into one ecclesiastical circumscription may be incardinated into another in accordance with the norm of law.
They were sensible that this province admitted not of any exact boundary or circumscription.
The agreement covers the whole of the circumscription of the port within the Community boundaries.
Such an approach was intended to make the circumscription more complete and legally consonant.
One example is what the American computer scientist John McCarthy called reasoning by circumscription.
One short distribution and circumscription of historical ages will soon place matters in a more hopeful aspect.

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