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Webster 1913 Edition


Coextensive

Coˊex-ten′sive

,
Adj.
Equally extensive; having equal extent;
as, consciousness and knowledge are
coextensive
.
Sir W. Hamilton.
Coˊex-ten′sive-ly
,
adv.
– Co`ex*ten"sive*ness,
Noun.
2.
The coffee tree.
☞ There are several species of the coffee tree, as,
Coffea Arabica
,
Coffea canephora
,
Coffea occidentalis
, and
Coffea Liberica
. The white, fragrant flowers grow in clusters at the root of the leaves, and the fruit is a red or purple cherrylike drupe, with sweet pulp, usually containing two pyrenes, commercially called “beans” or “berries”.
3.
The beverage made by decoction of the roasted and ground berry of the coffee tree.
They have in Turkey a drink called
coffee
. . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion.
Bacon.
☞ The use of coffee is said to have been introduced into England about 1650, when coffeehouses were opened in Oxford and London.
Coffee bug
(Zool.)
,
a species of scale insect (
Lecanium coffæa
), often very injurious to the coffee tree.
Coffee rat
(Zool.)
See
Musang
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Coextensive

COEXTENSIVE

,
Adj.
Equally extensive; having equal extent.

Definition 2024


coextensive

coextensive

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Adjective

coextensive (not comparable)

  1. Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
    The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive.
  2. Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:
      His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
  3. (logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
    • 1995, Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, A Companion to Metaphysics:
      Coextensive expressions with different intensions cannot in general be substituted for one another within an expression e while preserving the extension of e (assuming that the extension of a declarative sentence is its truth value).

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