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▪ I. † exˈpanse, a. Obs.
Also 4 expans, 5 expance.
[ad. L. expans-us, pa. pple. of expandĕre to expand.]
= expanded.
1. Bot. (See quot.)
1819Pantalogia, Expanse, in botany, expanded, spread out: as the calyx in helianthus. 1823in Crabb Techn. Dict.
2. expanse years: ‘When a table contains quantities denoting the amount of a planet's motion during only a few years, viz. from 1 to 20 years, such changes are entered separately under the headings 1, 2, 3, etc. years, which are designated the expanse (or separate) years’ (Skeat in Chaucer's Astrolabe (1872) Gloss.). Opposed to collect.
c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 547 Neither his collect, nor his Expans yeeres. c1391― Astrol. ii. §45. c 1430 Lydg. Thebes 380 The yeeres collecte and expance also.
▪ II. expanse, n.|ɛkˈspæns|
[ad. L. expans-um, neut. n. f. expansus: see expanse a.]
1. That which is expanded or spread out; a widely extended space or area; a wide extent of anything; ‘the length and breadth’.
1667Milton P.L. vii. 340 Th' Almightie spake: Let there be Lights High in th' expanse of Heaven. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 436 The smooth expanse of crystal lakes. 1742Gray Ode on Eton 6 Th' expanse..Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey. 1781Cowper Expostulation 9 Her fields a rich expanse of wavy corn. 1828Scott F.M. Perth ix, The..blue eyes, with the broad expanse of brow. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 18 Hung with broad expanses of black cloth. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 235 The army crossed over that vast expanse of sand.
fig.1758Johnson Idler No. 2 ⁋7 Those who wander at large through the expanse of life.
b. esp. in the expanse: the ‘firmament’. Cf. expansum.
1667Milton P.L. ii. 1014 Satan..Springs upward..Into the wild expanse. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 304 All the Expanse..Was straw'd with Rays of ante⁓solar Light. 1765Smart Ps. cxlviii. (1791) 219 Moon and Stars..Silv'ring in the blue expanse. 1863R. Young Lit. Tr. Bible, Gen. i. 8 And God calleth the expanse Heaven.
2. The action of expanding; the state of being expanded; enlargement, expansion. Also, the amount or distance of expansion; = expansion 3.
1860Motley Netherl. (1867) IV. lii. 532 To shut off the mighty movement of the great revolt from its destined expanse. 1874Coues Birds N.W. 544 Audubon mentions one nearly ten feet in alar expanse.
▪ III. † exˈpanse, v. Obs.
[f. L. expans- ppl. stem of expandĕre to expand. The pa. pple. prob. originated before the vb. as ad. L. expans-us: see -ed1.]
trans. = expand v. 1, 3.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 62 In Winter men eaten more meate Than in Summer, when expansed in their heate. 1600Fairfax Tasso iii. lv. 50 A gentle valley..Expansed faire and wide. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xx. (1611) 156 A swan with her wings expansed. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 121 After they had..clozed their iawes; which they expanse against the rays of the Sun. 1642Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §16. 32 Nature..that lies expans'd unto the Eyes of all. 1642J. Jackson Bk. Conscience 140 God enlargeth and expanseth the hearts of his Saints. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry i. ii. 17, I shall refer Books born in arms, if open blazoned expansed, if shut clasped. 1705Hearne Collect. 12 Dec., A Book Expansed in Fesse. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Expansed (in Heraldry), displayed, or set out. 1721–1800in Bailey. |