To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span.
The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.
Verily I see you to be in a happy condition:n but I fear for you the punishment of the day which will encompass the ungodly.
This passage was revealed to reprove an immodest custom of the pagan Arabs, who used to encompass the Caaba naked, because clothes, they said, were the signs of their disobedience to GOD.
They urge thee to bring down vengeance swiftly upon them: but hell shall surelyencompass the unbelievers.
Some imagine that this letter is designed to express the mountain Kâf, which several eastern writers fancy encompass the whole world.
Will it not come upon them on a day, wherein there shall be none to avert it from them; and that which they scoffed at shall encompass them?
Before thy malice was laid open: as it is at this time, making thee a reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all the daughters of Palestine round about thee, that encompass thee on all sides.
Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.
Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye in her towers.
And I will encompass my house with them that serve me in war, going and returning, and the oppressor shall no more pass through them: for now I have seen with my eyes.
And thou shalt encompassthe court with hangings, and the entry thereof.
Luynes, appear to be the most likely person to encompass this, in the interests of your friend Mancini; I leave the matter, therefore, in your hands.
You willed his death if you did notencompass it; so 't is all one.
It was an unconscious feeling; after the passage of which the daily life was to encompass and drag them down.
But simultaneously he was seized by a prodigious fear of that night which would encompass him if his entreaty should prove futile.
Perpetual blessings from above Encompass me around; But O how few returns of love Hath my Creator found!
Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb: The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide thro' the gloom.
This He hath revealed that His grace may encompass the world.
Ruddy sandstone rocks pitched at a steep angle encompass the bay, and peep grimly out from beneath the smooth, firm sands.
At a secluded corner of these by-lanes a gray and weather-beaten old house stands, forsaken and neglected, amid the meaner dwellings that encompass it.
A Cretan deserter, who fled to the enemy during the march, discovered to Perseus the design which the Romans had to encompass him: for he, seeing that Aemilius lay still, had not suspected any such attempt.
Then, after they had overcome, he was as much displeased to see them rush on to the plunder and spoil, and neglect to surround and encompass the rest of the enemy.
As Archelaus was extending the right wing to encompass the enemy, Hortensius with his cohorts came down in force, with intention to charge him in the flank.
Thou mayest gaze upon it from afar, but to approach it will be to encompassthine own end.
My father was convinced of her innocence, and believed also her allegation that a plot hatched by my mother was on foot to encompass her death.
Encompass us with Thy shelter, for in Thee is our salvation.
Cover us this night with Thy goodness, and encompass us with Thy mercy, that we be safe-guarded in body and soul.
Encompass me with Thy shield and lead me on the paths of Thy commandments that, like the children of light, I may be blameless in Thy service, to Thy good pleasure.
With its length it shall encompass London, and devour all that pass by it.
The river Thames shall encompass it round, and the fame of the work shall pass beyond the Alps.
I plead an ignorance of geography which is deplorable; and cannot in the least guess where I am, beyond the fact that the boundaries of France encompass me.
How many innocent lives has he taken to encompasshis revenge?
Would that her light feet might dance all over me; would that she might encompass every part of me like the atmosphere!
Know with real assurance that this light will encompass the horizons (the world) with great brilliancy.
I beg of God to make thy sepulchre a mine of mercy, a depository of gifts, and to encompass it with manifest signs.
Be thou assured that the divine bounties will so encompass holy souls even as the light of the sun doth the moon and stars.
Verily this great cycle (dispensation) will encompass all the horizons and ultimately all the nations will gather together under this standard.
The light shall surely encompass the maid-servants who are attracted by the fragrances of God and it will shine forth from their faces upon all regions.
And as he let his imaginings run riot they aroused within him a bestial jealousy of Mohammed Beyd, and a great fear that the other might encompass his base designs upon the defenseless girl.
The light of the sun, and all the glories of the world in which we live, are but as weak and sickly glimmerings, or rather darkness itself, in comparison of those splendors which encompass the throne of God.
Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.
There came a great roaring in mine ears, all things began to reel before my sight, a dark cloud seemed to encompass me, and then I knew nothing more.
O my son,' rejoined the King, 'the name of God encompass thee and preserve thy wit from madness!
O my lord Kemerezzeman,' said the Vizier, 'the name of God encompass thee!
Charges of the most serious nature, including murder, arson, and robbery were then trumped up against them, intending to encompass their execution under civil procedure.
As during the moments when Snap and I stood on the landing esplanade, there was so much here that at first I could not encompass it.
The city seemed entirely to encompass them; and every little rock-peak had upon its top a globelike dwelling.
But he is always fond of drawing back, of concentrating, of trying to encompass in a general form the sensations and ideas which sway him.
