Definition of Encroaches

1. Verb. (third-person singular of encroach) ¹

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Definition of Encroaches

1. encroach [v] - See also: encroach

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encroaches

encrinal
encrini
encrinic
encrinital
encrinite
encrinites
encrinitical
encrinoidea
encrinus
encrisped
encroach
encroach upon
encroached
encroacher
encroachers
encroaches (current term)
encroaching
encroaching(a)
encroachingly
encroachment
encroachments
encrust
encrustation
encrustations
encrusted
encrusting
encrustment
encrustments
encrusts
encrypt

Literary usage of Encroaches

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1890)
"... 'tis thought, encroaches on 1805. the military very considerably. Of course that line ought not to be established until run by persons appointed by ..."

2. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1883)
"... familiarizing men with conceptions of order and of regularity, gradually encroaches on the old notions of perturbation, of prodigy, and of miracle, ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations by Henry Osborn Taylor (1902)
"freedom, encroaches on the exclusive power or Congress.1 Thus, a statute of Missouri prohibiting driving or conveying Texan, Mexican, or Indian cattle into ..."

4. History of the Late Polish Revolution: And the Events of the Campaign by Joseph Hordynski (1832)
"... encroaches upon the civil administration.—Acts of tyranny.—Meeting of the Diet—Public debates suppressed.—The Polish Conspiracy of. ..."

5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"... it has turned from its natural course, and encroaches upon his land,1 provided he does not cause it to flow on the lands of others, except in its old ..."

6. College Life by Stephen Olin (1867)
"Educated Intellect encroaches upon the Sphere of mere physical Energy. — Illustration. — Education a Science as well as an Art.— An Acquaintance with the ..."

7. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"The same principle which renders it the duty of the courts to hold legislative action illegal when it unduly encroaches upon the province of the judiciary, ..."

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