ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, X. xiii. 379. Hee desired to behold that cleare vncircumscribed nature [of God].
1642. Chas. I., Mess. both Houses, 28 April, 3. So arbitrary and uncircumscribed a Power.
a. 1672. Sterry, Freedom Will (1675), 12. The uncircumscribed Amplitude and Majesty of God.
1713. Guard., No. 164, ¶ 3. The Pow’r of Pluto stretches all around, Uncircumscrib’d by Nature’s utmost Bound.
1798. Monthly Mag., V. 280. They boast the proud recommendation of moral beauty, in the most extensive and uncircumscribed acceptation of the term.
1820. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., III. iv. 194. The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed.
1881. Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., I. 264. Imagination presented an uncircumscribed field of action.
absol. 1635. A. Stafford, Fem. Glory (1869), 184. Thou Circumscription (if I may so say) of the Uncircumscribed!
Hence Uncircumscribedness.
1679. J. Goodman, Penitent Pardoned, I. ii. (1713), 27. The uncircumscribedness of the divine Goodness.
