▪ I. unˈcompassed, a.
[un-1 9.]
Not provided with a compass.
| 1827 Pollok Course T. ii. 242 Choosing, thus unshipped, Uncompassed, unprovisioned, and bestormed, To swim a sea of breadth immeasurable. a 1844 Campbell Napoleon & Brit. Sailor 35 A wherry..Untarr'd, uncompass'd, and unkeel'd, No sail, no rudder. |
▪ II. unˈcompassed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not bounded or circumscribed; unlimited.
| 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades Preface, The Churche in this time is like lande that hath lyen..vnmanured, vncompassed, vntilled. 1602 J. Davies (Heref.) Mirum in Modum i. Wks. (Grosart) I. 5/1 Center of true Rest, Compass'd with glory, and vncompass'd blisse. 1642 H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iv. 27 Why not dispred The world withouten bounds, endlesse uncompassed? 1665 Codrington Life Earl Essex 11 When the ambition and the excesse of the Bishops did swell them up to such an uncompassed greatnesse. |