Circumscriptively

adv. ? Obs. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a circumscriptive manner; with limitation in space: chiefly used in eucharistic discussions.

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1563. Foxe, A. & M., Disp. about Sacram., an. 1549 (R.). The bodie of Christ is in heauen circumscriptiuelie, but not so in the sacrament.

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1625. Bp. Mountagu, App. Cæsar., 231. The nature of a soule is not to be circumscriptively in place.

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1654. Jer. Taylor, Real Pres., 218. The body of Christ is not in the Sacrament circumscriptively, because there he could be but in one altar, in one wafer.

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1737. Waterland, Eucharist, 260. The Reception is confessedly real, tho’ the Thing it self is not locally, or circumscriptively present.

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