See compassing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for compassing meaning in English (3.4kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "compassynge"
},
"expansion": "Middle English compassynge",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "compass",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "compass + -ing",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English compassynge; equivalent to compass + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "compassing",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "15 3 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "30 7 62",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ing",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "compass"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of compass"
],
"id": "en-compassing-en-verb-y0wTId9~",
"links": [
[
"compass",
"compass#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "compassing"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "compassynge"
},
"expansion": "Middle English compassynge",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "compass",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "compass + -ing",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English compassynge; equivalent to compass + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more compassing",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most compassing",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "compassing (comparative more compassing, superlative most compassing)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "compassing timbers"
}
],
"glosses": [
"curved; bent"
],
"id": "en-compassing-en-adj-YsH8DL5Y",
"links": [
[
"curved",
"curved"
],
[
"bent",
"bent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(shipbuilding) curved; bent"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"manufacturing",
"shipbuilding"
]
}
],
"word": "compassing"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "compassynge"
},
"expansion": "Middle English compassynge",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "compass",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "compass + -ing",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English compassynge; equivalent to compass + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "compassings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "compassing (plural compassings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1878, Texas. Court of Appeals, Alexander Melvorne Jackson, Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the State of Texas",
"text": "If this proposition needed a reply, it would be sufficient to point to what we have already shown. But take the external circumstances surrounding the case, and they discover that inward intention of the prisoner. His deliberate compassings, the nature and character of the act done, the deliberation shown in preparing for the deed, the state and condition of his mind at the time—all these show express malice.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The forming of plots or schemes; machination."
],
"id": "en-compassing-en-noun-RK0k4qoB",
"links": [
[
"plot",
"plot"
],
[
"scheme",
"scheme"
],
[
"machination",
"machination"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated) The forming of plots or schemes; machination."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
]
}
],
"word": "compassing"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English verb forms"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "compassynge"
},
"expansion": "Middle English compassynge",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "compass",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "compass + -ing",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English compassynge; equivalent to compass + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "compassing",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "compass"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of compass"
],
"links": [
[
"compass",
"compass#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"word": "compassing"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English verb forms"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "compassynge"
},
"expansion": "Middle English compassynge",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "compass",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "compass + -ing",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English compassynge; equivalent to compass + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more compassing",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most compassing",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "compassing (comparative more compassing, superlative most compassing)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "compassing timbers"
}
],
"glosses": [
"curved; bent"
],
"links": [
[
"curved",
"curved"
],
[
"bent",
"bent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(shipbuilding) curved; bent"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"manufacturing",
"shipbuilding"
]
}
],
"word": "compassing"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English verb forms"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "compassynge"
},
"expansion": "Middle English compassynge",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "compass",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "compass + -ing",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English compassynge; equivalent to compass + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "compassings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "compassing (plural compassings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1878, Texas. Court of Appeals, Alexander Melvorne Jackson, Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the State of Texas",
"text": "If this proposition needed a reply, it would be sufficient to point to what we have already shown. But take the external circumstances surrounding the case, and they discover that inward intention of the prisoner. His deliberate compassings, the nature and character of the act done, the deliberation shown in preparing for the deed, the state and condition of his mind at the time—all these show express malice.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The forming of plots or schemes; machination."
],
"links": [
[
"plot",
"plot"
],
[
"scheme",
"scheme"
],
[
"machination",
"machination"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated) The forming of plots or schemes; machination."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
]
}
],
"word": "compassing"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.