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noun
- A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic north).
- A pair of compasses (a device used with a pencil to draw an arc or circle on paper).
- (obsolete) A space within limits; area.
- 1763, M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47.
- In going up the Missisippi sic, we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large .
- scope
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 8.
- : there is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subjectr, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the of human understanding.
verb (compass, es)
- To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
- To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
- (rfv-sense) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
- (rfv-sense) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
adverb
- (obsolete) In a circuit; round about.
- 1658, Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances " Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 9)
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