overspreading

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil present participle and gerund of overspread
2. isim That which spreads over something else.

   “But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]”

3. sıfat Rampant; encroaching.

   “The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]”