extend 
The Vines . . . may the more extend their branches in 
length. Coryat, Crudities, I. 102. 
Athens extended her citizenship over all Attica ; sln-cj-- 
teiided her diiiiiinion over the greater part of the JKgKnn 
coasts and islands, and over some points beyond. 
E. A. freeman, Amer. Lects., p. .'il.'i. 
2. To place horizontally, at full length. 
Her Father and Idseus first appear. 
Then Hector's Corps, extended on a Bier. 
Conyreve, Iliad. 
3. To hold out or reach forth. 
I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar 
smile with an austere regard of control. Shak., T. N., ii. 5. 
Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend. 
Pope, Messiah, 1. 10. 
And innocently extending her white arms, 
" Your love," she said, "your love to be your wife." 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
4. To make more comprehensive ; enlarge the 
scope of ; give a wider range to : as, to extend 
the sphere of usefulness ; to extend commerce ; 
to extend a treatise or a definition. 
Few extend their thoughts towards universal know- 
ledge. Locke. 
The invention of the barometer enabled men to extend 
the principles of mechanics to the atmosphere. 
H. Spencer, Universal Progress, p. 121. 
5. To continue ; prolong: as, to extend the time 
of payment ; to extend a leave of absence. 
If I extend this sermon, if you extend your devotion, or 
your patience, beyond the ordinary time, it is but a due 
and a just celebration of the day. Donne, Sermons, vii. 
With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 
Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 410. 
6. To hold out as a grant or concession ; com- 
municate; bestow; impart: as, to extend mercy 
to an offender. 
I will extend peace to her like a river. Isa. Ixvi. 12. 
It is more grace than ever I could have hoped, but that 
it pleaseth your ladyships to extend. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 
7. To hold out in effort ; put forth the strength 
or energy of: used reflexively. [Bare.] 8f. 
To take by seizure ; become seized of; pass by 
seizin or right of possession. 
Labienus 
(This is stiff news) hath, with his Parthian force, 
Extended Asia. Shak., A. and C., i. 2. 
But when 
This manor is extended to my use, 
You'll speak in humbler key. 
Massinger, New Way to Pay Old Debts, v. 1. 
9. In law, to make a seizure of; fasten a pro- 
cess or grant upon, as lands under a writ of ex- 
tent in satisfaction of a debt, or a writ of ex- 
ecution to levy and value. 10f. To magnify; 
extol. 
2d Gent. You speak him far. 
1st Gent. I do extend him, sir, within himself. 
Shak., Cymbeline, i. 1. 
lit. To plant or set out. 
In landes drie and hoote noo vyne extende. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 6. 
12f. To survey; measure the extent of, as land. 
Sobert of Srunna Extended compass, harmony, 
etc. See the nouns. Extended letter, In printing, a 
letter the face of which is broader relatively to the height 
than is usual. To extend a deed, to make a fair copy of 
a deed on paper, parchment, etc., for signature ; engross a 
deed. [Scotch.] 
II. intrans. To be stretched or drawn out; 
be continued in length, or in all directions ; be 
expanded ; stretch out : as, the line extends from 
corner to corner; the skin extends over nearly 
the whole body ; his influence is gradually ex- 
tending. 
My goodness extendeth not to thee. Ps. xvi. 2. 
The commandment extendeth more over the wills of men, 
and not only over their deeds and services. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 97. 
It used to be thought that the eastern, the most inland 
division, was the elder, and that the city extended to the 
west. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 162. 
extendant (eks-ten'dant), a. [< OF. extendant, 
estendant (F. etendant), ppr. of estendre, < L. 
extendere, extend : see extend.] Extending ; 
stretched out ; in her. , same as displayed. 
extended (eks-ten'ded), p. a. 1. Having ex- 
tent or extension; occupying space; dimen- 
sional; spatial. 
We perceive it [body] as something different from our 
perception, and we perceive it as having something not in 
our perception ; we perceive it, in short, as extended. 
MeCosh, Berkeley, p. 67. 
As soon as definite perception begins, the body as an ex- 
tended thing is distinguished from other bodies, and such 
organic sensations as can be localized at all are localized 
within it. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 84. 
2. In her., same as displayed. 
extendedly (eks-ten'ded-'li), adv. In an ex- 
tended manner; with extension. 
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My lords ; being to speak unto your lordships, somewhat 
more extendedly than what is my use, ... I find myself 
obliged, etc. Parliamentary ///.<(., 12 diaries II., 1(J60. 
extender (eks-ten'der), ii. [< ME. extendour; 
< extend + -er^.] 1. One who or that which ex- 
tends or stretches. 
Those muscles which are inserted into the thigh, ... as 
the first extender, Gluteus major. 
J. Smith, Solomon's Portraiture of Old Age, p. 65. 
2f. A surveyor; one who appraises landed prop- 
erty. 
In his auhtend gere that William was regnand, 
Kxtendoitrx he sette forto extend the land, 
Erldam & baronie how mykelle thei helde. 
Robert of Brunne, p. 83. 
extendibility (eks-ten-di-bil'i-ti), TO. [< exteiid- 
ible: see -bility. ] Capability of being extended; 
extensibility. 
Fire is cause of extendibility. 
Old Poem, in Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum, p. 58. 
extendible (eks-ten'di-bl), a. [< extend + -Me. 
Cf. extensible.] 1. Capable of being extended 
or expanded ; extensible. 
Warrants for vagrants are not extendable to knight- 
errants \ Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 263. 
2. In law, capable of being taken by a writ of 
extent and valued. 
extendlesst (eks-tend'les), a. [< extend + -less.] 
Extended without limit. 
extendlessnesst (eks-tend'les-nes), . Unlim- 
ited extension. 
Certain moleculse seminales must be supposed to make 
up that defect, and to keep the world and its integrals 
from an infinitude and extendlessness of excursions every 
moment into new figures and animals. 
Sir il. Hale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 10. 
extenduret (eks-ten'dur), n. [< extend + -ure. 
Cf. extensure.] Extent. 
Abridg'd the large extendure of your grounds. 
Middleman, Anything for a Quiet Life, v. 2. 
extense (eks-tens'), a. [= OF. extense, estense, 
< L. extensus, pp. of extendere, extend: see ex- 
tend.] Extended. [Bare.] 
Men and gods are too extense ; 
Could you slacken and condense ? 
Emerson, Alphonso of Castile. 
extensibility (eks-ten-si-bil'i-ti), n. [= F. ex- 
tensibilite = Sp. extensibilidad = Pg. extensibili- 
dade; as extensible + -ity.] The quality of be- 
ing extensible : as, the extensibility of a fiber or 
of a plate of metal. 
The extensibility, and consequently the divisibleness, of 
gold is probably far more wonderful. 
Boyle, Subtilty of Effluviums, ii. 
The articulation of the lower jaw loses in strength, while 
It gains in extensibility, as is seen in the development of 
the line of the eels among fishes. 
E. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 335. 
extensible (eks-ten'si-bl), a. [< F. extensible = 
Sp. extensible = Pg. extensivel, < L. as if *exten- 
sibilis, < extendere, pp. extentiis, later extensus, 
extend: see extend, extense.] 1. Capable of be- 
ing extended ; admitting of being stretched in 
length or breadth ; susceptible of enlargement 
or expansion. 
The lungs act like a sphygmoscope : they are dilated by 
internal pressure until their resistance to further dilata- 
tion is equal to the dilating force. The less extensible they 
are or become, the sooner will this limit be reached. 
A. Daniell, Prin. of Physics, p. 304. 
2. In zofil., capable of being thrust out; exten- 
sile; protrusile. 
The malleus, being fixed to an extensible membrane, fol- 
lows the traction of the imiscle, and is drawn inward. 
Holder. 
extensibleness (eks-ten'si-bl-nes), n. Extensi- 
bility. 
extensile (eks-ten'sil), a. [< L. extensus, pp. of 
extendere, extend (see extend, extense), + -He.] 
In zool. and anat., capable of being extended; 
extensible ; protrusile ; adapted for stretching 
out. 
If we view the articulated moveable spines and the ex- 
tenaUe and prehensile tubes in the light of primitive forms 
of locomotive extremities, we shall see in their great num- 
bers and irrelative repetition an illustration of the same 
law. Owen, Anat., x. 
extension (eks-ten'shon), n. [= OF. extension, 
estension, F. extension = Sp. extension = Pg. ex- 
tensSo = It. estensione,( L. extensio(n-), a stretch- 
ing out, extension, < extendere, pp. extentus, ex- 
tensus, stretch out: see extend.] 1. The act of 
extending; a stretching or expanding. Specifi- 
cally (a) In sura., the act of pulling the broken part of 
a limb in a direction from the trunk, in order to bring the 
ends of the bone into their natural situation, (b) In anat . : 
(1) The protrusion of a part away from another part : as, 
extension of the tongue. (2) The straightening of a part, 
as a limb. (3) The action or function of any extensor mns- 
extension-pedal 
cle, whatever its effect. The continued action of u mils 
cle which straightens ;i limit may carry a part not only to 
hut beyond a right line, nr. il 'the successive joints of apart 
tie already straight, may l>finl thi-ln. Thus, when the hand 
is bent back at the wrist, or the end of the thumb is re- 
rurvi-d, or the whole trunk of the body is thrown back from 
the hips, the action or movement is literally flexion ; but 
it results from the action of muscles which in most posi- 
tions of the parts tend to straighten or extend them, and 
is termed ext' : i>--i"u . BftQ "//'"'//o/i, adduction. flerii<,,i. 
2. The state of being extended; enlargement; 
expansion ; extent. 
We entered a large and thick wood of palm-trees, whose 
greatest extension seemed to be south by east. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 52. 
3. In physics and metaph., continuous quantity 
of space ; also, that property of a body by which 
it occupies a portion of space. 
By this idea of solidity is the extension of body dis- 
tinguished from the extension of space : the extension of 
body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, 
separable, movable parts ; and the extension of space the 
continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts. 
. . . This space, considered barely in length between any 
two beings, without considering anything else between 
them, is called distance ; if considered in length, breadth, 
and thickness, I think it may be called capacity. The 
term extension is usually applied to it in what manner so- 
ever considered. . . . There are some who would persuade 
us that body and extension are the same thing. ... If 
therefore they mean by body and extension the same that 
other people do viz., by body something that is solid and 
extended, whose parts are separable and movable different 
ways, and by extension only the space that lies between 
the extremities of those solid coherent parts, and which 
is possessed by them they confound very different ideas 
with one another. . . . If any one ask me what this space 
I speak of is, I will tell him when he tells me what his ex- 
tension is. For to say, as is usually done, that extension 
is to have partes extra partes, is to say only that extension 
is extension: for what am I the better informed in the 
nature of extension when I am told that extension is to 
have parts that are extended exterior to parts that are ex- 
tended? . . . To avoid confusion in discourses concerning 
this matter, it were possibly to be wished that the name 
extension were applied only to matter or the distance of 
the extremities of particular bodies. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. iv.-xiii. 
Doubtless, Extension is the fundamental aspect of the 
objective world as it offers itself to our apprehension. In 
our everyday view of things, which psychology has to ren- 
der account of, space has the same appearance of external 
reality as the body that fills it ; and extension is the one 
attribute that is common alike to body and to space. 
G. C. Robertson, Mind, XIII. 420. 
4. The character of having continuous quan- 
tity of any kind, as length of time, weight, etc. 
Kate not th' extension of the human mind 
By the plebeian standard of mankind, 
But by the size of those gigantic few 
Whom Greece and Rome still offer to our view. 
Jenyns, Immortal, of Soul. 
5. In logic, the totality of subjects of which a 
logical term is predicable. Logical extension is 
generally understood to consist of individual objects, but 
some logicians make it consist of species. The extension 
is also called the supposita, the subjective parts, the ex- 
ternal quantity, the scope, the denotation, and the breadth. 
(See breadth.) It is contrasted with comprehension and 
intention. Many logicians say that the greater the ex- 
tension of a term, the less its comprehension that is, 
the more subjects it can be pre dicated of, the fewer the 
predicates that can be asserted of it universally. But 
this statement takes no account of increase of knowledge. 
6. A grant of further time in which to do some- 
thing which has been set down for a particular 
day. Specifically (a) In legal proceedings, a postpone- 
ment, by agreement of the parties or act of the court, of 
the time set for service of papers or for other acts, (b) In 
com., a written engagement on the part of a creditor, al- 
lowing a debtor further time to pay a debt ; more espe- 
cially, an agreement made between an embarrassed debtor 
and his creditors, by which the latter agree to wait a fixed 
time after their claims are due before demanding pay- 
ment, in order to enable the former to meet his obliga- 
tions. The agreement is often effected by issuing notes 
that mature at various times. 
7. That by which something is extended or en- 
larged ; particularly (in the United States), an 
addition to a house, usually at the rear, and not 
so high as the main building: as, a dining-room 
extension. The term applies whether the extension is 
part of the original building or is a subsequent addition. 
Difform extension, the extension of a heterogeneous 
body, such as a pudding-stone. Extension of title, in 
law, in parts of the United States acquired from Mexico, 
the certificate of location usually issued by a local com- 
missioner appointed for the purpose, to designate the par- 
ticular land on which an original grant is to take effect. It 
is a title of possession, and necessary to perfect the origi- 
nal grant, which does not attach to any specified land. By 
its issue the grant is said to be extended upon the land 
designated. Uniform extension, the extension of a 
homogeneous body, such as a piece of gold. 
extensional (eks-ten'shon-al), a. [< extension 
+ -nl.] Pertaining to or Having extension or 
extent; existing in space. 
You run upon these extensional phantasms, which I look 
upon as contemptuously as upon the quick wrigglings up 
and down of pismires. Dr. H. More, Divine Dialogues. 
extension-pedal (eks-ten'shon-ped*al), n. In 
the pianoforte, a pedal for raising ttie dampers 
