all-comprehensive

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This manner of conceiving is absolutely general and distinct, and accordingly affords the possibility of an all-comprehensive and perfect science, the science of discrete quantity.

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

It is all-comprehensive; it is mystical in the sense that it goes down below the mere surface of prescriptions about conduct.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander

Or is this all-comprehensive Hinduism, this universal toleration, this refusal to recognise ultimate antagonisms, this "mush," in a word, as my friends would dub it—is this, after all, the truest and profoundest vision?

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

Where did he acquire that all-comprehensive knowledge of nature, men, and books?

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

Once more the gesture, ending in an all-comprehensive shrug.

From The Dominant Dollar by Ralph, Lester