overspreading

English

Verb

overspreading

1. present participle of overspread

Noun

overspreading (plural overspreadings)

1. 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 […]