| 单词 | far-embracing | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasfar-embracing  a.   When far (in senses  1  – 5) qualifies a participial adjective used attributively, it is usually hyphenated, thus giving rise to an unlimited number of quasi-compounds, as  far-beaming,  far-branching,  far-embracing,  far-extending,  far-flying,  far-going,  far-ranging,  far-travelled, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > 			[adjective]		 > far-travelling far-comea1000 room-riddenc1450 far-went1609 far-travelled1905 1533    T. More Answere Poysened Bk.  i. vi. f. xxiiv  				Makynge one perfyt persone and one farpassynge perfyte persone of god and man togyther. 1596    E. Spenser View State Ireland 2  				The manner rather of desperate men farre driven. 1598    G. Chapman tr.  Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades  i. 19  				Far-shooting Phœbus. 1601    R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. E4  				I will..liue in some farre moved continent. a1649    W. Drummond Poems 		(1656)	 133  				These Saphir far-extending Hights. 1688    Addr. in  London Gaz. No. 2536/1  				Your far distanced New England Subjects. 1726    E. Fenton in  A. Pope et al.  tr.  Homer Odyssey IV.  xix. 127  				O Queen! whose far-resounding fame, Is bounded only by the starry frame. 1735    W. Somervile Chace  i. 272  				Their Arms Far-gleaming, dart the same united Blaze. 1781    S. Johnson Swift in  Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VIII. 86  				Variegated by far-sought learning. 1785    W. Cowper Task  i. 184  				Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood. 1812    Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II  ii. xl. 81  				Leucadia's far-projecting rock of woe. 1820    J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in  Lamia & Other Poems 97  				Far-heard clarionet. 1838    J. C. Hare  & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 		(ed. 2)	 1st Ser. 91  				Expressing profound and farstretching thoughts in the simplest words. 1852    J. A. Roebuck Hist. Whig Ministry II. 32  				The view was exceedingly offensive to the far-going reformers. 1854    Excelsior II. 128  				His venerable and far-travelled friend. 1857    J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art ii. 139  				Consider what a far-branching, far-embracing good you have wrought. 1864    C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 232  				Far-spread popularity. 1870    tr.  F. Marion's Wonderful Balloon Ascents  i. i. 5  				The far-flying comets. 1889    F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 135  				A far-going Whig. 1905    Westm. Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/3  				Far-travelled tourists. 1923    R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 5  				One single far-ranging rifle-bullet. 1939    War Illustr. 4 Nov. 283/3  				Far-flying squadrons over home waters and foreign seas had splendidly maintained our cause. 1959    E. H. Carr Socialism in One Country II. xix. 201  				The intellectuals whose far-ranging thought had provided the inspiration of the revolution. 1969    Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 240/3  				Far-going mechanisation and cost-reduction is rendered possible. < as lemmas  | 
	
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