Definition:Euclid's Definitions - Book IV/2 - Circumscribe

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As Euclid defined it:

Similarly a figure is said to be circumscribed about a figure when the respective sides of the circumscribed figure pass through the respective angles of that about which it is circumscribed.

(The Elements: Book IV: Definition $2$)

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