Outspread definition

out-sprĕd
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To stretch or extend or to be stretched or extended.
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The act of spreading out.
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Something spread out; an expanse.
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Spread out; extended.
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To spread out; extend; expand.
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A spreading out; extension; expansion.
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Spread out; extended; expanded.
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(intransitive) To spread out; expand; extend.
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Extended outward, as one's arms.

She longed to fall into his outspread arms once again.

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Origin of outspread

  • From out- +"Ž spread. Cognate with Dutch uitspreiden (“to outspread, stretch, unfold"), Danish udsprede (“to outspread"), Swedish utspridda (“to outspread").

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Outspread Sentence Examples

  • The god of Atha was a form of Horus (Apollo) as the sun-god; his most characteristic representation is as the disk of the sun with outspread wings, so often seen over the doors of shrines, at the top of stelae, &c. In the temple, where he is often figured as a falconheaded man, he is associated with Hathor of Dendera and the child Harsemteus.

  • The Christ is an elect one, who, as the Cathars (q.v.) put it, having been consoled or become a Paraclete in the flesh, stands in prayer with his hands outspread in the form of a cross, while the congregation of hearers or audientes adore the Christ in him.

  • But even before he could arrive, the outspread of the Mutiny had already been checked by the gallantry and skill of a mere handful of Britons and their faithful native allies.

  • Just hold it up to a bright light source and hold your hand behind it with your fingers outspread.

  • In May 1670 he received the titles of excellency and privy councillor; in July of the same year he was ennobled under the name of Griffenfeldt, deriving his title from the gold griffin with outspread wings which surmounted his escutcheon; in November 1673 he was created a count, a knight of the Elephant and, finally, imperial chancellor.

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