Meanings
verbcoextend (third-person singular simple present coextends, present participle coextending, simple past and past participle coextended)
present singular third person coextends · participle present coextending · participle past coextended · past coextended
- ambitransitiveTo extend along with another.
It is neceſſary therefore that this nevv created or replaced thing do not onely fill ſome part of the Space [i.e. “imaginary space”] above-mentioned, or be coincident and coextended vvith it, but alſo, that it have no dependance upon our thought.
1656, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Body and Accident”, in anonymous translator, Elements of Philosophy, the First Section, Concerning Body. […], London: […] R[obert] & W[illiam] Leybourn for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, part 2 (The First Grounds of Philosophy), paragraph 1, page 74
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