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santonin (medicine) and circumscription (iou)


santonin (medicine)


santonin
<chemistry> A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary colour blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.

Origin: L. Herba santonica, a kind of plant, fr. Santoni a people of Aquitania; cf. Gr., cf. F. Santonine.

Source: Websters Dictionary


circumscription (iou)



circumscription noun. LME.
[Latin circumscriptio(n-), from circumscript- pa. ppl stem of circumscribere: see CIRCUMSCRIBE, -ION.]
An inscription around a coin etc. LME.
The fact or quality of being confined to definite limits of space, as a property of matter. L15-M19.
The action or an act of laying down limits; the fact of being limited; confinement; (a) restraint, (a) restriction; (a) definition, (a) description. M16.
Milton No injurious Alteration or Circumscription of Mens Lands. E. Pound Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions.
A boundary, an outline, a periphery; a border, an edging. L16.
M. Bradbury The main horizon..of their lives, the limit and circumscription of their world.
Geometry. The action of circumscribing one figure around another. L16.
A circumscribed space; a district or region of definite limits. M19.
circumscriptive adjective pertaining to or having the attribute of circumscription (esp. of matter) L15-M18.
circumscriptively adverb L15-M18.