It is impossible to specify a clearly circumscribed (or delimited) area for any particular science.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object), : to circumscribe a city on a map. ,Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations. ,to circumscribe the area of a science.    From Dictionary.com. 

England, are from Mr. William Lee and you will be so good as to forward them, with his name circumscribed and inclosed to Messieurs Frederic Goutard and Fils, Banquiers a.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778] Reference

Lake called the FCC's role in retrans disputes "circumscribed" -- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the FCC did not plan to step in if Sinclair pulls its signals Jan. 8, so long as the bargaining is in "good faith.".    From Wordnik.com.  [B&C - Advertising News] Reference

In order to get from the idea of circumscribed options to determined option we'd need to add some other thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triablogue] Reference

When it is circumscribed, that is, when, but a small portion of the animal structure is involved, Fever is not ordinarily developed.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

'No, it ain't that,' said Sam, '"circumscribed"; that's it.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

#What meaning is conveyed by the qualifying term "circumscribed"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

P. 7: Being guarded and circumscribed with rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

The memory and circle of ideas are curiously circumscribed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

In 1870, the pope's holdings were further circumscribed when.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

There were circumscribed ways of behavior, avenues to success.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 o' clock] Reference

Some forms of creative expression remain more circumscribed than others.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Glasnost] Reference

And in his orthodoxy, he is as circumscribed as the hat acts he disparages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hats Off To Nashville] Reference

Relators 'investigative efforts would be severely circumscribed by either Order.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Isenberg: PSCs on Drugs] Reference

Upper Country, to which the tales are native, is one very narrowly circumscribed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

In 1870, the pope's holdings were further circumscribed when Rome itself was annexed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

What were poverty, the world's neglect, hard labor and circumscribed life to this man?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

But in putting down the rebels, Yeltsin circumscribed the democracy he was trying to save.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollow Victory] Reference

A Fanqui, or foreigner, finds himself much circumscribed in his peregrinations about Canton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

The result of those quarrels, however, was to give a less circumscribed promenade to Napoleon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

The desire for social harmony has circumscribed the debate about the war in Japan for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's Sorry Now?] Reference

The impact of politics is tightly circumscribed by mostly fair rules clearly understood by all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Polish-Russian Gap] Reference

That is, so as to stand in need of earthly dwellings, or to be contained, or circumscribed by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference

Most of their friends were already married -- their futures foreordained and severely circumscribed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Worldwide Gender Gap] Reference

Whatever "freedom" may be, it is enormously circumscribed by the actual reality of lived experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Which 'Islam'? Exploring the Word's Many Meanings] Reference

The perfect storm has seriously circumscribed our room for maneuver and signaled that time is quickly running out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Garrison: From Climate Change to Climate Shock: The Result of a Perfect Eco-Political Storm] Reference

The soldiers in the A team tracked by NEWSWEEK say their role during the war was circumscribed by how events unfolded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undercover Ops] Reference

In sum, Condorcet favors a limited privilege, circumscribed by an inquiry into its effects in promoting progress and enlightenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

Now that their territories are circumscribed by narrower bounds, the means of subsistence derived even from game is less plentiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference

It's really people acting out very human needs and emotions in a world that is circumscribed by a scientific transformation in a way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Director Mark Romanek Tackles 'Never Let Me Go'] Reference

Those trees are still there in that little circumscribed area around Niagara, and we saw a picture of one of them in Mr. Sherman's collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

 Not wanting to cross the street for fear of breaking into the circle, I stood and watched as she circumscribed the world; remaking it over and over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inner City] Reference

They are generally more sensitive, and their life and circumscribed habits have a tendency to the formation of morbid moods, and this among the number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

It's about learning how they experience their circumscribed, fragmented world and trying to connect with them by bridging the gap between their reality and ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridging the Gap] Reference

But the functions of the justice were, in his estimation, especially important -- his dignity was very considerable also, and his powers anything but circumscribed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

If he even attempted to make himself master of all the particulars of the scene in a circumscribed portion of time, he would find himself bewildered and confounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference

This means of getting out from the circumscribed plateau I did not wish to use, however, unless there was no alternative, for I wished to demonstrate to the Cavalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Her age is thirteen, and she has been married six months; her ideas appear to be limited to three or four, and her pleasures, poor creature, are equally circumscribed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

With Iraq's central government still weak, Tehran could funnel circumscribed imports and exports with the rest of the world through its neighbor, evading some sanctions, he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran's Ambassador to Iraq Promises Closer Trade Ties] Reference