extensure

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Noun[edit]

extensure (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) extension
    • 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses, his Birth and Miracles, book II.:
      Which he doth conquer in the end, when by th' extensure of the wand, he brings ten plagues upon the land.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for extensure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)