Definition of "compassed" [com•passed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of compass. (verb)
• Rounded; arched (adjective)

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• "The term compassed about or surrounded, as well as the clear athletic imagery which follows, suggests that these individuals are now witnesses in still another sense."
• "He was made man, not only to suffer, but to learn; He assumed the imperfections of His creatures, and "compassed" Himself"
• "Secular anthropologists find a pagan influence, reading the formulaic invective as a counters-spell by someone who thinks he is bewitched by sorcerers who "have compassed me about with words of hatred.""