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expansed

expansed adjective: spread wide; outspread in a way that is open to observation.

Adjective

expansed (comparative more expansed, superlative most expansed)

  1. (obsolete) Spread wide; outspread in a way that is open to observation.
    • Thus there are two Books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and publick Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the Eyes of all […].1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, I.16

Forms of expansed

comparativemore expansed
superlativemost expansed

Origin of expansed

From expanse + -ed.

Questions about expansed

What does expansed mean?
Expansed means spread wide; outspread in a way that is open to observation.
What part of speech is expansed?
Expansed is an adjective.

Words near expansed in the dictionary

  1. expandors
  2. expandos
  3. expands
  4. expands one's wings
  5. expanse
  6. expansed
  7. expanses
  8. expansibilities
  9. expansibility
  10. expansible
  11. expansibly

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