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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Be thou of glad cheer therefore, and I will compass it.”
From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
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 cannon ball will compass the field of vision of the eye, moving across it without making itself known, and yet the fact does not excite surprise.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
You have parted with Iver quite so but only till after my death, which you will compass between you.
From The Broom-Squire by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Of those who will compass sea and land to make one proselyte, it is too generally true that they are themselves the children of hell, and make their proselytes twofold more so.
From Val d'Arno by John Ruskin
