circumscribe

Their opponents accepted the issue, and resolved to circumscribe the duke's inordinate powers.

It is my wish to state it with precision and circumscribe its limits here at the very start.

A new spirit has now gone abroad which no walls can bound or circumscribe.

This finally came to be so urgent that it even involved an effort to circumscribe the futile activities.

Of a simple and solid edifice, it is not easy, however, to circumscribe the duration.