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Overspreading

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Rampant; encroaching.

    "The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]"

Noun
  1. 1
    That which spreads over something else.

    "But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of overspread form-of, gerund, participle, present

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