A slow death may be defended indeed on moral grounds if regeneration has been compassed, ' but it is only another form of capital punishment.
Though discountenanced by the ministry, the violence of the Ultra-clericals compassed its downfall.
Oswine's death was compassed by Oswio in 651, and the throne of Deira was then obtained by 1-Ethelwald son of Oswald.
Charles headed the party of feudal reaction, and was among those who compassed the ruin of Enguerrand de Marigny.
From slow beginnings these factors kept gaining momentum until they compassed the overthrow of the mighty order of the Jesuits, and culminated in the revolutionary spoliation of the Church.