I.to spread or stretch out against or before, to spread out (post-class.): “aliquid ad flatus helices,” Grat. Cyn. 55: “cornibus oppansis et summā fronte coruscum (of the cross of Christ),” Prud. Psych. 410: “aulaei vice oppansā,” Tert. Apol. 48 fin.; Hier. Ep. ad Galat. 1, v. 11, 12; Vulg. Exod. 35, 12.—Hence, oppansum (-passum ), i, n., a covering, envelope (eccl. Lat.): “corporis,” Tert. Anim. 53.
oppando , pandi, pansum, or passum, 3, v. a. ob-pando,