all-comprehensive
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From worship the Apostle passes to life, and crowns the entire series of injunctions with an all-comprehensive precept, covering the whole ground of action.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander
It is to be all-comprehensive governing:—institutions, arts, sciences.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander
Thus the system of the Englishman Hobbes was science swelled to world-proportions, simple, compact, conclusive, and all-comprehensive.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
It is a general law of our humanity, an all-comprehensive and all controlling principle, that we belong, as human beings, to each other.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
It is all-comprehensive; it is mystical in the sense that it goes down below the mere surface of prescriptions about conduct.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander
