all-comprehensive

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Thus the system of the Englishman Hobbes was science swelled to world-proportions, simple, compact, conclusive, and all-comprehensive.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

It is to be all-comprehensive governing:—institutions, arts, sciences.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

From worship the Apostle passes to life, and crowns the entire series of injunctions with an all-comprehensive precept, covering the whole ground of action.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander

Having thus vindicated the claims of the great pioneer in philosophy, our next issue will show the limitations of his discoveries, and give an outline of the new and all-comprehensive Anthropology.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

So huge his all-comprehensive mouth, it seemed to swallow up itself.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman