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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
encompass .
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Examples
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A once popular suggestion was that it is a corruption of “God encompasseth us”.
The Goat and Compasses (God encompasseth us)* | clusterflock 2008
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Pond,578 your glance would not revert from the scene quit of wonder; for nowhere would you behold the fellow of that lovely view; and, indeed, the two arms of the Nile embrace most luxuriant verdure,579 as the white of the eye encompasseth its black or like filigreed silver surrounding chrysolites.
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And after a while it lifted and showed beneath it an army dight for victory, in numbers like the swelling sea, armed and armoured cap-à-pie who, making for the city, encompassed it around as the ring encompasseth the little finger; 21 and a bared brand was in every hand.
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The Goat and Compasses God encompasseth us* | clusterflock etc.
The Goat and Compasses (God encompasseth us)* | clusterflock 2008
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"Some of the supposed changes in public-house signs, such as Bull and Mouth from 'Boulogne mouth' and Goat and Compasses from 'God encompasseth us' are more than doubtful; but the Bacchanals has certainly changed into the Bag o 'nails, and the George Canning into the George and Cannon".
Doing the tell Ray Girvan 2004
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"Some of the supposed changes in public-house signs, such as Bull and Mouth from 'Boulogne mouth' and Goat and Compasses from 'God encompasseth us' are more than doubtful; but the Bacchanals has certainly changed into the Bag o 'nails, and the George Canning into the George and Cannon".
Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Pythagoreans, that every star is a world in an infinite aether, and encompasseth air, earth, and aether; this opinion is current among the disciples of Orpheus, for they suppose that each of the stars does make a world.
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To give briefly the full sense, the sun is nothing else but the light and brightness of that fire which encompasseth the earth.
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Having finished my dissertation concerning principles and elements and those things which chiefly appertain to them, I will turn my pen to discourse of those things which are produced by them, and will take my beginning from the world, which contains and encompasseth all beings.
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At that time the pious landlord, putting up a pious legend for the benefit of his pious customers, had declared that — ‘God encompasseth us.’
Framley Parsonage 2004
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