compass
noun
an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.
compassable
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a word derived from
compass.
Example Sentences
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Yet exhibition of its tombstone, were such exhibition compassable, could not fail to bring her honour and respect.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
Our other book was much more compassable and more widely circulated.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
Here, then, we discover two purposes of partial, indeed, but signal utility, compassable by the induction of trance, at the very outset of our inquiry into its utility.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
Instantly Nozdrev burst into a laugh compassable only by a healthy man in whose head every tooth still remains as white as sugar.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
He lives in another world—has, as Sir Anthony Absolute says, a sun and moon of his own—a realm of fairies, with attending sprites to perform his every compassable wish.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 by Various
