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Definition of Encompassed
1. encompass [v] - See also: encompass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encompassed
| encolure encolures encomber encombered encombering encomberment encombers encomia encomiast encomiastic | encomiasts encomion encomium encomiums encore encored encores encoring encoubert |
Literary usage of Encompassed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"encompassed by his declared or concealed enemies, he soon, amidst the nocturnal
tumult, received a mortal dart from an uncertain hand ..."
2. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"... had a wooded park of fifty acres encompassed with a wall. This enclosure he
called a nursery of wild beasts, all of which came for their food at a ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1839)
"... consisting of about five hundred men, which had been drawn out of the garrison
of Wallingford, when he found himself encompassed by the enemy's army of ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... and thence (having encompassed the whole Circumference of the Earth) home :
gathered out of the Latine Journall, beeing the fift Circum-Navigation. ..."
5. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, Israel Gollancz (1893)
"For he 's a lamb, encompassed by wolves, Heav'ns turn it to a blaze of quenchless
fire, But if proud Mortimer do wear this crown, Or like the snaky wreath ..."
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