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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of coextend.

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  • By contrast, one could claim that divine operational presence requires situational presence and hold that the divine substance is, in some sense to be specified, coextended with what it fills.

    Samuel Clarke Vailati, Ezio 2009

  • However, there is cumulative evidence that for Clarke the soul is merely coextended with a part of the brain.

    Samuel Clarke Vailati, Ezio 2009

  • The noblest beauties of art are those of which the effect is coextended with rational nature, or, at least, with the whole circle of polished life; what is less than this can be only pretty, the plaything of fashion, and the amusement of a day.

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

  • Such manners as depend upon standing relations and general passions are coextended with the race of man; but those modifications of life, and peculiarities of practice, which are the progeny of errour and perverseness, or, at best, of some accidental influence or transient persuasion, must perish with their parents.

    Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

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