compass
noun
an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.
has compassed
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present perfectof compass (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Great Diomede has compassed round with walls The city, which Argyripa he calls, From his own Argos named.
From The Story of Troy by Michael Clarke
If these are honestly expressed, he has compassed the main end of house-building.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
Between his whiffs he presently threw out carelessly: "This man has compassed eternity by his own will?"
From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens
The span from Thales to Galen has compassed about eight hundred years—let us say thirty generations.
From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams
You took lots of beating, my sky-scraping friend, But Benjamin Baker has compassed that end; I am sure Monsieur Eiffel himself would allow That the Bridge licks the Tower; so where are you now?
From Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. by Various
