compass
noun
an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.
had compassed
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past perfectof compass.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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They caused it to be laid to Prince Nagaya's charge that he had compassed the death of the infant prince by charms and incantations.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
Had she not often spoken warmly of that Covenanting minister and expressed her bitter regret that her husband had compassed Pollock’s death?
From Graham of Claverhouse by Ian Maclaren
It was only her nobility of nature, he argued, that had compassed her unhappiness in that instance.
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
That his life had compassed many failures and few successes was plain enough.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever
Out of the number who started, only three had compassed safely all the hurdles and ditches and come to the final leap.
From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
