overspreading
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
overspreading
- present participle and gerund of overspread
Noun[edit]
overspreading (plural overspreadings)
- That which spreads over something else.
- 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese, page 252:
- But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]
Adjective[edit]
overspreading (comparative more overspreading, superlative most overspreading)
- Rampant; encroaching.
- a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, chapter VII, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 270:
- The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]