Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Contrivance; purpose; design; a carrying into execution; accomplishment.
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Examples
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And men may well prove by experience and subtle compassment of wit, that if a man found passages by ships that would go to search the world, men might go by ship all about the world and above and beneath.
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"Three things are necessary to the compassment of this reformation.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. Elizabeth Willits Crooks 1875
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