all-comprehensive

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Now the supreme, all-comprehensive link of connexion between present feeling or impression and either past or future experience is that of causation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

She flashed on him a quick, all-comprehensive look of scrutiny, then bowed with a gracious smile, and gave him her hand.

From The Road to Paris by Stephens, Robert Neilson

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

Sulla’s task was of a general nature and all-comprehensive range, and he had the most essential of all monarchical attributes, which is the unlimited duration of office.’—Ihne.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

Nor is such an all-comprehensive precept a mere toothless generality.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander