v. [f. CO- 1 + EXTEND.]

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  1.  trans. To extend equally or coincidently with; to make coextensive.

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1656.  [see COEXTENDED].

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1667.  H. More, Div. Dial., IV. § 26 (1713), 360. The Papal Authority was easily coextended with the Conquests of Charlemaigne.

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1784.  J. Barry, Lect. Art, i. (1848), 57. The growth and progress of them are coextended with the general improvement of the human faculties.

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  2.  intr. To be coextensive.

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1617.  [see below].

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a. 1711.  Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 94. Whose Realm with this vast Globe should co-extend.

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  Hence Coextended, Coextending ppl. a.

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1617.  Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, I. ii. 119. The Church and the Pope are coextending.

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1656.  Jeanes, Fuln. Christ, 137. The manhood is not coextended with the Godhead.

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1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. v. 112. No such collateral or coextended extrinsick measure.

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1779–81.  Johnson, Life of Butler, Wks. II. 189. Such manners … are coextended with the race of man.

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