Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Reaching to or touching completely.

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  • If the pertingent Reader still craves more evidence of the extent of Hariot's friendships, and the universality of his acquirements, let him read the following pithy, quaint, and beautiful tribute paid to him by blind Old Homer's Chapman in 1616.

    Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885

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