Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extended.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.
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- adjective Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.
Etymologies
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Examples
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My nickname back then was Imeda because of my extense collection.
The Obligatory Shoe Post Brigindo 2008
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Anybody that experiments with this assertion soon discovers that it represents an over-simplification of reality: there are as many French cuisines as there are provinces in France; there is an extense variety of Chinese cuisines - Hunan, Szechuan, Fujian, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Beijing; and, of course, there is more than one Mexican cuisine.
Mexican salsas 1997
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There are an estimated 30,000 orchid species in nature, making them the most extense floral plant family on Earth.
Orchids of Mexico 1997
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Anybody that experiments with this assertion soon discovers that it represents an over-simplification of reality: there are as many French cuisines as there are provinces in France; there is an extense variety of Chinese cuisines - Hunan, Szechuan, Fujian, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Beijing; and, of course, there is more than one Mexican cuisine.
Mexican salsas 1997
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To meet the apprehended danger, I would exclude the teaching _in extense_ of pure dogma from the secular schools, and content myself with enforcing such a broad knowledge of doctrinal subjects as is contained in the catechisms of the Church, or the actual writings of her laity.
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845
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Now, since of love and wisdom there cannot be predicated spaces and times, but instead thereof states, it follows, that the expanse around the sun of the angelic heaven is not extended, but still is in the extense of the natural sun, and present with all living subjects therein according to their receptions, which are according to forms.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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The isolation can be physical (e.g.: a solitaire man in an empty park, or a solitaire house in a flat extense field); social (e.g.: homeless people); or virtual (e.g: a couple kissing as they were alone in the world).
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The isolation can be physical (e.g.: a solitaire man in an empty park, or a solitaire house in a flat extense field); social (e.g.: homeless people); or virtual (e.g: a couple kissing as they were alone in the world).
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ROJO® joins Saulo di Tarso's curatorship for this extense graphias group exhibition at the Memorial da America Latina.
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No judonian citizen being allowed to be part of any non-judonian institution, but with free-pass through every UN-member border (including during wartime, if possible) provided a ransom deposited at a UN-reserve, etc, etc, etc, plus an extense list of conditions, included no direct monetary conversion between the Judonian currency and the nation-state's one and security for judonians provided by nation-states.
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