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uncircumscribed

Definitions

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  • adjective Not circumscribed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ circumscribed

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Examples

  • It would be the role of a constitutionalist candidate who promises that, as president, he would prune from his office much of the grandiosity it has acquired from audacious recent assertions of uncircumscribed powers.

    White-Haired Guy Gets Mad 2007

  • I like students a deal better one on one than I do in large masses, so I like the chance to talk with them in my office, and to go over their progress with them, and here in the office, uncircumscribed by their peers, they are more who they are and less a construct of who they feel they ought to be, so I enjoy them more, too.

    Archive 2006-10-01 delagar 2006

  • I like students a deal better one on one than I do in large masses, so I like the chance to talk with them in my office, and to go over their progress with them, and here in the office, uncircumscribed by their peers, they are more who they are and less a construct of who they feel they ought to be, so I enjoy them more, too.

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  • He seeks to hold state officials accountable for their abuse of their broadly delegated, uncircumscribed power to effect the deprivation at issue.

    Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

  • The unfathomable abyss of space may be regarded as an uncircumscribed sphere boundless on all sides round, and so far as we can comprehend of infinite extent.

    The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

  • Primum Mobile, constituted a more attractive and picturesque object for poetic description than the simple and uncircumscribed arrangement of the universe expressed by the Copernican theory.

    The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

  • It was a vast outburst of force, as uncircumscribed as uncontrollable, and as unconnected with motives merely human, as an inroad of the ocean.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

  • Beyond this last sphere there was believed to exist a boundless, uncircumscribed region, of immeasurable extent, called the Empyrean, or

    The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

  • But the republican armies of ants are immense, and the realm of bees is uncircumscribed; as no birds of prey, neither the audacious robin, nor the woodpecker, tapping away on the hollow beech-tree, diminish their hordes.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

  • According to this theory there is, surrounding us on all sides, a boundless uncircumscribed ocean of space, to which it is impossible to assign any conceivable limit; in every effort to comprehend its dimensions or fathom its depths, the mind recoils upon itself, baffled and discomfited, with a conscious feeling that there can be no nearer approach to the end when end there is none that can be conceived of.

    The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

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