Coextensive Definition

Coextensive Sentence Examples

• The right of pardoning is coextensive with the right of punishing.

• There is only one of the four in which our knowledge is coextensive with our ideas.

• As early as the 12th century B.C., Chinese chronicles, which are almost the only source for the history of Cambodia till the 5th century A.D., mention a region called Fou-nan, in later times appearing under the name of Tchin-la; embracing the basin of the Menam, it extended eastwards to the Mekong and may be considered approximately coextensive with the Khmer kingdom.

• He defined them as possessing radial instead of bilateral symmetry, and as apparently destitute of nervous system and sense organs, as having the circulatory system rudimentary or absent, and the respiratory organs on or coextensive with the surface of the body; he included under this title and definition five classes, - Echinodermata, Acalepha, Entozoa, Polypi and Infusoria.

• This view depended principally on the fact that the life of the polypide and of the zooecium are not coextensive.