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Word: Compass
Speech Type: Verb
Middle English: from Old French compas (noun), compasser (verb), based on Latin com- ‘together’ + passus ‘a step or pace’. Several senses (‘measure’, ‘artifice’, ‘circumscribed area’, and ‘pair of compasses’) which appeared in Middle English are also found in Old French, but their development and origin are uncertain. The transference of sense to the magnetic compass is held to have occurred in the related Italian word compasso, from the circular shape of the compass box
ˈkʌmpəs
go round (something) in a circular course
Short Definition:go round in circular course
Examples:- the ship wherein Magellan compassed the world
contrive to accomplish (something)
Short Definition:manage to accomplish
Examples:- he compassed his end only by the exercise of violence
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