compass
noun
an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.
will compass
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future tenseof compass.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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There was in her last speech, in the accent and inflection, something incommunicably indigenous, something no alien ever has or ever will compass.
From Command by William McFee
A man is on trial before you who is rich, and who hopes his riches will compass his acquittal, but whose life and actions are sufficient condemnation in the eyes of all candid men.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
He will compass you about and lift you up and you shall be blessed.'
From The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine
Brocton has half a regiment of thorough-paced blackguards at his service and will compass hell itself to fetch you down.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
Be thou of glad cheer therefore, and I will compass it.”
From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
