adv. rare. [f. CIRCUMSCRIPT a. + -LY2.]

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  1.  = CIRCUMSCRIPTIVELY.

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1548.  in Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. I. xi. 81. Whether the body … is there really or figuratively, locally or circumscriptly.

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  2.  In a circumscribed manner or sense.

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1643.  Milton, Divorce, II. xv. (1851), 101. Those words tak’n circumscriptly, without regard to any precedent law.

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