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compassare

compassare, ~ere [cf. OF compasser] , to compass, contrive, plot. 1451 mortem nostram et destruccionem regni nostri Anglie confederantes, machinantes, ~entes et proponentes Pat 473 m. 5; 1559 instigacione diabolica seducti, imaginantes, conantes et ~antes ‥ reginam ‥ de regali statu ‥ deturbare (Pat) Foed. XV 558a; 1567 (v. compassatio); 1573 proditorie machinaverunt, devisaverunt, conspiraverunt et ~averunt nos de regali statu ‥ dejicere et dishereditare Pat 1105 m. 7.

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