Definition of "circumscriptive" [cir•cum•scrip•tive]

• That circumscribes or outlines (adjective)

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• "Andrew Baker presented a solution to the version of the Yale Shooting problem in the Situation Calculus, using a circumscriptive inertial axiom."
• "A circumscriptive approach to the Qualification Problem is presented in"
• "But because they hold them incorporeal, without all dimension of quantity, and all men know that place is dimension, and not to be filled but by that which is corporeal, they are driven to uphold their credit with a distinction, that they are not indeed anywhere circumscriptive, but definitive: which terms being mere words, and in this occasion insignificant, pass only in Latin, that the vanity of them may be concealed."