Ye shall compass the city--and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times. Josh. 6. For ye compass sea and land. Math. 23. 4. To besiege; to beleaguer; to block up. This is not a different sense, but a particular application. Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side. Luke 19. 5.
The people so classified also were categorized collectively as gente de razn, a term that literally means people of reason, but was originally used to designate non-Spaniards and especially people of mixed genetic heritage who were able to speak the Spanish language.
Blazon. (Fr. Shield or coat of arms). As a literary term it was used by the followers of Petrarchanism to describe verses which dwelt upon and detailed the various parts of a woman s body; a sort of catalogue of her physical attributes.ater Johnson in his Lives of the Poets (1779-81) established the term more or less permanently as a label. Johnson wrote somewhat disapprovingly of the discordia concors in metaphysical imagery, and referred to heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence together.