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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To draw so as to touch the one side of a triangle outside of the triangle, and the other two sides produced: as, an escribed circle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, geometry To draw outside of; used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

Etymologies

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Latin e out, out of + scribere to write.

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