Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a circumscriptive or limited manner or sense.
- In such a manner as to occupy space and prevent other bodies from occupying it: as, a body is situated where it is circumscriptively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a limited manner.
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- adverb In a
circumscriptive manner - adverb With regard to
circumscription
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Examples
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Because, to be in a place definitively or circumscriptively belongs to being in a place.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Likewise it is evident that it is not in this sacrament circumscriptively, because it is not there according to the commensuration of its own quantity, as stated above.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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But Christ's body seems to be definitively in this sacrament, because it is so present where the species of the bread and wine are, that it is nowhere else upon the altar: likewise it seems to be there circumscriptively, because it is so contained under the species of the consecrated host, that it neither exceeds it nor is exceeded by it.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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But that it is not outside the superficies of the sacrament, nor on any other part of the altar, is due not to its being there definitively or circumscriptively, but to its being there by consecration and conversion of the bread and wine, as stated above (A. 1; Q. 15, A. 2, sqq.).
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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But it happens in those things which are in a place corporeally and circumscriptively, that if a whole be in some place, then no part of it is outside that place.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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+ A mixed mode of location would be that of a being which is circumscriptively in one place (as is Christ in heaven), and definitively (sacramentally) elsewhere (as is Christ in the consecrated Host).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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+ Catholic philosophers maintain that there is no absolute impossibility in the same body being at once circumscriptively in one place and definitively elsewhere (mixed mode of location).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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+ Regarding the absolute possibility of a body being present circumscriptively in more than one place, St. Thomas, Vasquez,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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A spirit cannot, of course, be in loco circumscriptively since, having no integrant parts, it cannot be in extensional contact with the surrounding dimensions.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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+ A physical body is in place commensurably (circumscriptively) inasmuch as the individual portions of its exterior surfaces answer singly to the corresponding portions of the immediately environing surfaces of the body or bodies that constitute its place.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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