compassed

These are all matters that would disappear from today’s talking points if Americans were properly compassed on this one truth: In this country, individual rights, including the right to choose, come from God, not government.

According to the King James Version, Jonah says that the Mediterranean waters “compassed me about, even to the soul” — or nefesh.

"They have compassed me about also ... and fought against me without cause."

If these are honestly expressed, he has compassed the main end of house-building.

“I can’t see faw the life of me, Mr. Bombs, just how you could have compassed all that,” Miss Drawling was saying, when something in the nature of a revelation cut short her sentence.