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encompass

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WOTD – 22 August 2006

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishencompassen, equivalent toen- +‎compass.

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encompass (third-person singular simple presentencompasses,present participleencompassing,simple past and past participleencompassed)

  1. (transitive) To form acircle around; toencircle.
  2. (transitive) Toinclude within itsscope; tocircumscribe or go round so as tosurround; toenclose; tocontain.
    Synonym:embrace
    • c.1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. [] The First Part [], 2nd edition, part 1, London: [] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, [], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act II, scene i:
      his piercing inſtruments of ſight:
      Whose fiery circles beareencompaſſed
      A heauen of heauenly bodies in their Spheares:
    • 1994, Richard Mowery Andrews,Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, page551:
      Those trajectoriesencompassed absolute social extremes: the kings of France making their solemn entries into Paris through the Ludovician Arch of the Porte [...]
    • 2017, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael J. Lynch,Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime:
      In order to address the systematic, processual character of interpersonal interactions — the larger mosaic of micro-level patterns — we must postulate subapparent butencompassing structures of social activity.
    • 2020 March 6, Catherine Opie, “Catherine Opie: ‘Beauty has to encompass more about the human condition’”, inCNN[1]:
      Beauty is complicated; it’s an individual response to how we live our lives – but it can alsoencompass kindness and compassion.
    • 2024 October 3, CARY, “Spooktober: The Horror that Surrounds”, inVIRTUAL BASTION[2]:
      In developing a new theme for this year’s rounds of Spooktober posts, we decided to look beyond the realm of strictly horror games to cover a topic that we hadn’t touched on before, one thatencompasses games generally and allows for a little “outside the box” thinking. Our Spooktober theme this year is “The Horror that Surrounds.”
  3. (transitive) Toinclude completely; todescribe fully orcomprehensively.
    Synonym:(now rare)comprehend
    This book on English grammarencompasses all irregular verbs.
  4. (transitive) To go around, especially, tocircumnavigate.
    Drakeencompassed the globe.

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encircle
surround
include

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