all-comprehensive

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Sulla’s task was of a general nature and all-comprehensive range, and he had the most essential of all monarchical attributes, which is the unlimited duration of office.’—Ihne.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

Paul's notion of life, like John's, is that it is the one all-comprehensive good which men need and seek.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander

So huge his all-comprehensive mouth, it seemed to swallow up itself.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

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

Now the supreme, all-comprehensive link of connexion between present feeling or impression and either past or future experience is that of causation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various