circumscribe

Etymology

From Latin circumscrībō, from circum (“around”) + scrībō (“write”). Surface analysis: circum- + scribe.

verb

1. To draw a line around; to encircle.
2. To limit narrowly; to restrict.
   It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […]. 2013-06-07, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
3. (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.