Definition of "compassing" []

• Present participle of compass. (verb)
• Curved; bent (adjective)

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• "Irritated by this reply, and the contemptuous glance with which it was accompanied, the vindictive triumvirate turned from the king to his court; and having failed in compassing the destruction of Bruce and his more renowned friend, they determined at least to make a wreck of their moral fame."
• "William Grigg on August 1, 2009 04: 33 PM medieval English law, the crime of "high treason" included the offense of "compassing" (or imagining) "the death of our lord the king, of his lady our queen, or of their eldest son and heir.""
• "He was out early and late, compassing prodigious climbs and tramps -- once reaching as far as the gold mines Tom had spoken of, and being away two days."