Word Meanings - OUTCOMPASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To exceed the compass or limits of. Bacon.

Related words: (words related to OUTCOMPASS)

• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• EXCEDENT
  Excess.
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• EXCERNENT
  Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.
• EXCENTRICITY
  . Same as Eccentricity.
• EXCEPTANT
  Making exception.
• EXCENTRIC; EXCENTRICAL
  One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray. (more info) 1. Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.
• EXCECATE
  To blind. Cockeram.
• COMPASSABLE
  Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke.
• EXCEPTLESS
  Not exceptional; usual. My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.
• EXCEEDABLE
  Capable of exceeding or surpassing. Sherwood.
• COMPASSING
  Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.
• EXCERPT
  To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.
• EXCELLENT
  1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims,
• COMPASSLESS
  Having no compass. Knowles.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• ENCOMPASSMENT
  The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.
• OUTCOMPASS
  To exceed the compass or limits of. Bacon.
• ENCOMPASS
  To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world. Shak. A question may be encompassed with difficulty. C. J.