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English
Etymology
From co- + extend.
Verb
coextend (third-person singular simple present coextends, present participle coextending, simple past and past participle coextended)
- (transitive, intransitive) To extend along with another.
1656, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Body and Accident”, in anonymous translator, Elements of Philosophy, the First Section, Concerning Body. , London: R & W Leybourn for Andrew Crooke, , →OCLC, part 2 (The First Grounds of Philosophy), paragraph 1, page 74:It is neceſſary therefore that this nevv created or replaced thing do not onely fill ſome part of the Space [i.e. “imaginary space”] above-mentioned, or be coincident and coextended vvith it, but alſo, that it have no dependance upon our thought.
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