Word Meanings - OUTCOMPASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To exceed the compass or limits of. Bacon.
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- EXCEEDING
More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney. - EXCEPT
1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - EXCEPTIONER
One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton. - EXCEDENT
Excess. - EXCEPTIONAL
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv. - EXCERNENT
Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion. - EXCENTRICITY
. Same as Eccentricity. - EXCEPTANT
Making exception. - EXCENTRIC; EXCENTRICAL
One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray. (more info) 1. Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical. - COMPASSABLE
Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke. - EXCECATE
To blind. Cockeram. - EXCEPTLESS
Not exceptional; usual. My general and exceptless rashness. Shak. - EXCEEDABLE
Capable of exceeding or surpassing. Sherwood. - COMPASSING
Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers. - EXCERPT
To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller. - EXCELLENT
1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, - COMPASSLESS
Having no compass. Knowles. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - ENCOMPASSMENT
The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak. - OUTCOMPASS
To exceed the compass or limits of. Bacon. - ENCOMPASS
To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world. Shak. A question may be encompassed with difficulty. C. J.