compassed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌmpəst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
compassed
- simple past and past participle of compass
Adjective
compassed (comparative more compassed, superlative most compassed)
- (obsolete) rounded; arched
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- She came […] into the compassed window.
Derived terms
References
“compassed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.