Overspreading
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 […]"
- 1 present participle and gerund of overspread form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 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; […]"
Example
More examples"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 […]"
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