Ye shall compass the city--and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times. Josh. 6. For ye compass sea and land. Math. 23. 4. To besiege; to beleaguer; to block up. This is not a different sense, but a particular application. Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side. Luke 19. 5.
The people so classified also were categorized collectively as gente de razn, a term that literally means people of reason, but was originally used to designate non-Spaniards and especially people of mixed genetic heritage who were able to speak the Spanish language.
The genitive case is often used to show possession or the relation between nouns: 1  die Farbe des Himmels (the colour of the sky) 2  Deutschland liegt im Herzen Europas (Germany lies in the heart of Europe) 3  der Tod seiner Frau (the death of his wife) 4  die Entwicklung dieser LÃ¤nder (the development of these countries)