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Definition of Compassing
1. a. Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.
Definition of Compassing
1. Verb. (present participle of compass) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Compassing
1. compass [v] - See also: compass
Literary usage of Compassing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"V. The form of an indictment of compassing the death of the king, queen, or prince.
I. What shall be said a man compassing, 4-c. ..."
2. Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added, the by William Pitt, Edmund Burke, James Mackintosh, Jean Gabriel Peltier, A member of the Philadelphia bar (1841)
"Now can any man possibly derive from such a writing (proceeding too from an au
thor of the character of Lord Hale,) that an overt act of compassing, ..."
3. The Trial of James Watson: For High Treason, at the Bar of the Court of King by James Watson, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1817)
"Gentlemen, the law considers the offence of compassing and imagining the King's
death, or deposition, not to be confined to those cases ip which it enters ..."
4. A Selection of Cases Illustrative of English Criminal Law by Courtney Stanhope Kenny (1901)
"LORD MANSFIELD, in summing up the evidence, said :—As to the law, levying war is
an overt act of compassing the death of the King. ..."
5. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"But a conspiracy to levy war is not high treason, nor an overt act or compassing
the death of the king, if nothing be done in pursuance of it; ..."
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