a. The condition of being extended or strained. b. The action of stretching or spreading out; in quot. concr. c. Extent.
1594. Zepheria, xxxvi. in Arb., Garner, V. 84. Mistrust … Hath my crime racked, yet to more high extensure.
1604. Drayton, Owle, 36. A goodly Tree; Under th’ extensure of whose Lordly Armes, The small Birds warbled their harmonious Charmes.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 866. A smooth plaine … some two miles in extensure.
