Definition of "circumscribing" []

• Present participle of circumscribe. (verb)

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• "In practice, and in law, “freedom” is the granting of certain rights to certain classes of people, and the less restrictive the conditions circumscribing those rights are, the “freer” those people are judged to be."
• "The Heller Court has done a masterful job of circumscribing the scope of the RKBA, as well."
• "Congress has the impeachment power, so could accomplish the same thing if, e.g. a judge started to investigate something Congress firmly intended to be left alone; and indicated so by passing an amnesty and/or otherwise circumscribing jurisdiction."