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circumscribe - verb

To draw a line around, to encircle, as in to circumscribe a village on a map; to enclose with bounds, to delimit, as in His ambition is circumscribed by his lack of drive and determination.

[U]ntil women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

—Frances Wright Quoted in Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings by Miriam Schnier (1972)

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