Usage examples (10)

• Adjective : a compass timber; compass roof
• Verb (used with object) : It would take a week to compass his property on foot. ,An old stone wall compasses their property. ,to compass a treacherous plan....
• This may be a second cause of staggering, if the thing itself engaged for be not compassable by the ability of the engager.
• Here, then, we discover two purposes of partial, indeed, but signal utility, compassable by the induction of trance, at the very outset of our inquiry into its utility.