Object

• world: The primary function of these accounts was to circumscribe the world of rationality.

• area: Naturalism on television is 'a way of writing about the world which circumscribes the area you're allowed to write about.

• limit: Who, in Deleuze's terms, wins the ' right ' to circumscribe the limits of the possible?

Used with why or when

• what: Time and again, we witness how difficult it is for individuals to try and circumscribe what they mean by'sustainability ' .

Subject

• body: Even in deep sleep, the consciousness of the jIva is circumscribed by the causal body.

• nature: Such a body of knowledge is circumscribed by the nature of facts in reality including their relationships and implications.

Modifying Another Word

• narrowly: With two exceptions, such authority was usually narrowly circumscribed.

• tightly: If the question put is tightly circumscribed, the adjudicator, as first happened here, would be right to debar new arguments.

• strictly: To con each scope is strictly circumscribed to the facts.

• severely: Today the powers of the majority of nations are severely circumscribed by the need to attract inward investment.

• heavily: Now, this is heavily circumscribed, either in the 16th century by Anglicans or the 17th century by Puritans.

• carefully: Even for adult heads of households, freedom was carefully circumscribed.

Preposition: by

• law: Freedom of speech is circumscribed by laws against incitement to murder and violence.

• body: Even in deep sleep, the consciousness of the jIva is circumscribed by the causal body.

• race: Despite their efforts they find their lives circumscribed by race.