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wide-spreading, a.
(ˈwaɪdˈsprɛdɪŋ: stress var.)
[f. wide adv. + spreading ppl. a.]
Spreading widely (lit. and fig.).
1. Extending over or occupying a wide space; nearly = prec. 1.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 222 Wide-spreading Plains, open and spacious Fields. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes i. xvii. 5 The vales, wide-spreading round The sloping hills. 1809–11Combe Syntax xvii. 184 Beneath an oak's wide-spreading shade. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 57/2 A number of cattle..came to drink at the pit. Some of these carried enormous wide-spreading horns. 1862Spencer First Princ. ii. xvi. §131 (1875) 367 Wide-spreading marine currents. 1909E. H. Burton Bp. Challoner II. 278 One old wide-spreading cedar.
2. Extending to, reaching, or affecting many places or persons; extensive in effect; far-reaching; nearly = prec. 2.
1766Complete Farmer s.v. Thistle 7 K 4/1 To prevent the wide-spreading mischiefs occasioned by the seeding of this pernicious weed. 1833Newman Arians iii. i. (1876) 241 That wide-spreading Association, of which the faith of the Gospel was the uniting and animating principle. 1842in Westm. Gaz. (1903) 1 July 2/3 The wide-spreading distress of the working-classes. 1902Words of Eyewitness 336 Kindliness, not little but vast, wide-spreading. |