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Compartment

COMPARTMENT, noun

1. A division or separate part of a general design, as of a picture, or of a ground-plot.

2. A design composed of several different figures, disposed with symmetry, for ornament; as a compartment of tiles or bricks, duly arranged, of various colors and varnished, to decorate a building. In gardening, compartments are assemblages of beds, plots, borders, walks, etc. In heraldry, a compartment is called also a partition.

Compartner

COMPARTNER, noun A sharer.

Compass

COMPASS, noun

1. Stretch; reach; extent; the limit or boundary of a space, and the space included; applied to time, space, sound, etc. Our knowledge lies within a very narrow compass The universe extends beyond the compass of our thoughts. So we say, the compass of a year, the compass of an empire, the compass of reason, the compass of the voice.

And in that compass all the world contains.

2. A passing round; a circular course; a circuit.

Time is come round;

and where I did begin, thee shall I end:

My life has run its compass

They fetched a compass of seven days journey. 2 Kings 3:9. 2 Samuel 5:23. Acts 28:13.

3. Moderate bounds; limits of truth; moderation; due limits.

In two hundred years, (I speak within compass ) no such commission had been executed.

This sense is the same as the first, and the peculiar force of the phrase lies in the word within.

4. The extent or limit of the voice or of sound.

5. An instrument for directing or ascertaining the course of ships at sea, consisting of a circular box, containing a paper card marked with the thirty two points of direction, fixed on a magnetic needle, that always points to the north, the variation excepted. The needle with the card turns on a pin in the center of the box. In the center of the needle is fixed a brass conical socket or cap, by which the card hanging on the pin turns freely round the center. The box is covered with glass, to prevent the motion of the card from being disturbed by the wind.

6. compass or compasses, [or a pair of compasses, so named from its legs, but pair is superfluous or improper, and the singular number compass is the preferable name, ] an instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two pointed legs or branches, made of iron, steel or brass, joined at the top by a rivet, on which they move. There are also compasses of three legs or triangular compasses, cylindrical and spherical compasses with four branches, and various other kinds.

7. An instrument used in surveying land, constructed in the main like the mariners compass; but with this difference, that the needle is not fitted into the card, moving with it, but plays alone; the card being drawn on the bottom of the box, and a circle divided into 360 degrees on the limb. This instrument is used in surveying land, and in directing travelers in a desert or forest, miners, etc.

COMPASS-saw, a saw with a brad edge and thin back, to cut in a circular form.

COMPASS, verb transitive

1. To stretch round; to extend so as to embrace the whole; hence, to inclose, encircle, grasp or seize; as, to compass with the arms.

2. To surround; to environ; to inclose on all sides; sometimes followed by around, round or about.

Now all the blessings of a glad father compass thee about.

With favor wilt thou compass him as with a shield. Psalms 5:12.

The willows of the brook compass him about. Job 40:22.

3. To go or walk round.

Ye shall compass the city--and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times. Joshua 6:3.

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 19:43.

5. To obtain; to attain to; to procure; to bring within ones power; to accomplish.

If I can check my erring love, I will;

If not, to compass her Ill use my skill.

How can you hope to compass your designs?

6. To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot; to contrive; as we say, to go about to perform, but in mind only; as, to compass the death of the king.

COMPASSing and imaging the death of the king are synonymous terms; compass signifying the purpose or design of the mind or will, and not, as in common speech, the carrying such design to effect.

Compassed

COMPASSED, participle passive Embraced; surrounded; inclosed; obtained; imagined.

Compassing

COMPASSING, participle present tense

1. Embracing; going round; inclosing; obtaining; accomplishing; imagining; intending.

2. In ship-building, incurvated; arched.

Compassion

COMPASSION, noun

1. A suffering with another; painful sympathy; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. compassion is a mixed passion, compounded of love and sorrow; at least some portion of love generally attends the pain or regret, or is excited by it. Extreme distress of an enemy even changes enmity into at least temporary affection.

He being full of compassion forgave their iniquity. Psalms 78:38.

His father had compassion and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. Luke 15:20.

COMPASSION, verb transitive To pity.

Compassionable

COMPASSIONABLE, adjective Deserving of pity.

Compassionate

COMPASSIONATE, adjective Having a temper or disposition to pity; inclined to show mercy; merciful; having a heart that is tender, and easily moved by the distresses, sufferings, wants and infirmities of others.

There never was a heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate

COMPASSIONATE, verb transitive To pity; to commiserate; to have compassion for.

COMPASSIONATEs my pains and pities me.

Compassionately

COMPASSIONATELY, adverb With compassion; mercifully.

Compassionateness

COMPASSIONATENESS, noun The quality of being compassionate.

Compaternity

COMPATERNITY, noun [con and paternity.] The relation of a godfather to the person for whom he answers.

Compatibility

COMPATIBILITY, noun [See Compatible.] Consistency; the quality or power of coexisting with something else; suitableness; as a compatibility of tempers.

Compatible

COMPATIBLE, adjective

1. Consistent; that may exist with; suitable; not incongruous; agreeable; followed by with; sometimes by to, but less properly.

The poets have joined qualities which by nature are the most compatible

The office of a legislator and of a judge are deemed not compatible

To pardon offenders is not always compatible with public safety.

Compatibleness

COMPATIBLENESS, noun Consistency; fitness; agreement; the same as compatibility, which is generally used.

Compatibly

COMPATIBLY, adverb Fitly; suitably; consistently.

Compatient

COMPATIENT, adjective Suffering together.

Compatriot

COMPATRIOT, noun A fellow patriot; one of the same country.

COMPATRIOT, adjective Of the same country.

Compeer

COMPEER, noun An equal; a companion; an associate; a mate.

COMPEER, verb transitive To equal; to match; to be equal with.

Compel

COMPEL, verb transitive

1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

Thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bound servant. Leviticus 25:39.

And they compel one Simon--to bear his cross. Mark 15:21.

Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. Luke 14:23.

Circumstances compel us to practice economy.

2. To force; to take by force, or violence; to seize.

The subjects grief comes through commissions, which compel from each a sixth part of his substance.

3. To drive together; to gather; to unite in a crowd or company. A Latinism, compellere gregem.

In one troop compelled.

4. To seize; to overpower; to hold.

And easy sleep their weary limbs compelled.

5. To call forth, Latin compeller.

Compellable

COMPELLABLE, adjective That may be driven, forced or constrained.

Compellably

COMPELLABLY, adverb By compulsion.

Compellation

COMPELLATION, noun Style or manner of address; the word of salutation.

The compellation of the Kings of France is by sire.

Compelled

COMPELLED, participle passive Forced; constrained; obliged.

Compeller

COMPELLER, noun One who compels or constrains.

Compelling

COMPELLING, participle present tense Driving by force; constraining; obliging.

Compend

COMPEND,

COMPENDIARIOUS, adjective Short; contracted.

Compendiarious

COMPENDIARIOUS, a. Short; contracted.

Compendiate

COMPENDIATE, verb transitive To sum or collect together.

Compendious

COMPENDIOUS, adjective

1. Short; summary; abridged; comprehensive; containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compas; as a compendious system of chimistry; a compendious grammar.

2. Short; direct; near; not circuitous; as a compendious way to acquire science.

Compendiously

COMPENDIOUSLY, adverb In a short or brief; in epitome.

The substance of christian belief is compendiously expressed in a few articles.

Compendiousness

COMPENDIOUSNESS, noun Shortness; brevity; comprehension in a narrow compass.

Compendium

COMPENDIUM, noun In literature, an abridgment; a summary; an epitome; a brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system.

Compensable

COMPENSABLE, adjective [See Compensate.] That may be compensated.

Compensate

COMPENSATE, verb transitive

1. To give equal value to; to recompense; to give an equivalent for services, or an amount lost or bestowed; to return or bestow that which makes good a loss, or is estimated a sufficient remuneration; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make amends for.

The length of the night and the dews do compensate the heat of the day.

The pleasures of sin never compensate the sinner for the miseries he suffers, even in this life.

COMPENSATE, verb intransitive To make amends; to supply an equivalent; followed by for.

Nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

This word is generally accented on the second syllable, most unfortunately, as any ear will determine by the feebleness of the last syllables n the participles, compensated, compensating.

Each seeming want compensated of course.

With the primary accent on the first syllable and the secondary accent on the third, this defect and the difficulty of uttering distinctly the last syllables are remedied.

Compensated

COMPENSATED, participle passive Recompensed; supplied with an equivalent in amount or effect; rewarded.

Compensating

COMPENSATING, participle present tense Giving an equivalent; recompensing; remunerating.

Compensation

COMPENSATION, noun

1. That which is given or received as an equivalent for services, debt, want, loss, or suffering; amends; remuneration; recompense.

All other debts may compensation find.

The pleasures of life are no compensation for the loss of divine favor and protection.

2. In law, a set-off; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.

Compensative

COMPENSATIVE, adjective Making amends or compensation.

Compensatory

COMPENSATORY, adjective Serving for compensation; making amends.

Compense

COMPENSE, verb transitive To recompense, is found in Bacon; but is not now in use.

Compete

COMPETE, verb intransitive

1. To seek, or strive for the same thing as another; to carry on competition or rivalry.

Our manufacturers compete with the English in making cotton cloths.

2. To strive or claim to be equal.

The sages of antiquity will not dare to compete with the inspired authors.

Competence

COMPETENCE, PETENCY, noun

Competent

COMPETENT, adjective

1. Suitable; fit; convenient; hence, sufficient, that is, fit for the purpose; adequate; followed by to; as, competent supplies of food and clothing; a competent force; an army conpetent to the preservation of the kingdom or state; a competent knowledge of the world. This word usually implies a moderate supply, a sufficiency without superfluity.

2. Qualified; fit; having legal capacity or power; as a competent judge or court; a competent witness. In a judge or court, it implies right or authority to hear and determine; in a witness, it implies a legal right or capacity to testify.

3. Incident; belonging; having adequate power or right.

That is the privilege of the infinite author of things, who never slumbers nor sleeps, but is not competent to any finite being.

It is not competent to the defendant to alledge fraud in the plaintiff.

Competently

COMPETENTLY, adverb Sufficiently; adequately; suitably; reasonably; as, the fact has been competently proved; a church is competently endowed.

Competible

COMPETIBLE, adjective [Not now used. See Compatible.]

Competing

COMPETING, participle present tense Striving in rivalry.

Competition

COMPETITION, noun

1. The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain, at the same time; rivalry; mutual strife for the same object; also, strife for superiority; as the competition of two candidates for an office, or of two poets for superior reputation.

2. A state of rivalship; a state of having equal claims.

A portrait, with which one of Titians could not come in competition

3. Double claim; claim of more than one to the same thing; formerly with to, now with for.

COMPETITION to the crown there is none nor can be.

There is no competition but for the second place.

Competitor

COMPETITOR, noun

1. One who seeks and endeavors to obtain what another seeks; or one who claims what another claims; a rival.

They cannot brook competitors in love.

2. An opponent.

Competitory

COMPETITORY, adjective Rivaling; acting in competition.

Competitress

COMPETITRESS,

COMPETITRIX,

COMPILATION, noun

1. A collection of certain parts of a book or books, into a separate book or pamphlet.

2. A collection or assemblage of other substances; or the act of collecting and forming an aggregate.

Competitrix

COMPETITRIX,

Compilation

COMPILATION, n. 1. A collection of certain parts of a book or books, into a separate book or pamphlet.2. A collection or assemblage of other substances; or the act of collecting and forming an aggregate.

Compilator

COMPILATOR, noun A collector.

Compile

COMPILE, verb transitive

1. To collect parts or passages of books or writings into a book or pamphlet; to select and put together parts of an author, or to collect parts of different authors; or to collect and arrange separate papers, laws, or customs, in a book, code or system.

2. To write; to compose.

In poetry, thy compile the praises o virtuous men and actions.

3. To contain; to comprise.

4. To make up; to compose.

5. To put together; to build.

Compiled

COMPILED, participle passive Collected from authors; selected and put together.

Compilement

COMPILEMENT, noun The act of piling together or heaping; coacervation.

Compiler

COMPILER, noun A collector of parts of authors, or of separate papers or accounts; one who forms a book or composition from various authors or separate papers.

Compiling

COMPILING, participle present tense Collecting and arranging parts of books, or separate papers, in a body or composition.

Complacence

COMPLACENCE,

COMPLACENCY, noun

1. Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification. It is more than approbation, and less than delight or joy.

Other proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

2. The cause of pleasure or joy.

3. Complaisance; civility; softness of manners; deportment and address that afford pleasure.

Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness,

Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts.

In the latter sense, complaisance, from the French, is now used. [See Complaisance.]

Complacency

COMPLACENCY, n. 1. Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification. It is more than approbation, and less than delight or joy.Other proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves.2. The cause of pleasure or joy.3. Complaisance; civility; softness of manners; deportment and address that afford pleasure.Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness, Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts.In the latter sense, complaisance, from the French, is now used. [See Complaisance.]

Complacent

COMPLACENT, adjective Civil; complaisant.

They look up with a sort of complacent awe to kings.

Complacential

COMPLACENTIAL, adjective Marked by complacence; accommodating.

Complacently

COMPLACENTLY, adverb Softly; in a complacent manner.

Complain

COMPLAIN, verb intransitive

1. To utter expressions of grief; to lament.

I will complain in the bitterness of my spirit. Job 7:11.

I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed. Psalms 77:3.

2. To utter expressions of censure or resentment; to murmur; to find fault.

And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord. Numbers 11:1.

3. To utter expressions of uneasiness, or pain. He complains of thirst. He complains of a head-ache.

4. To charge; to accuse of an offense; to present an accusation against a person to a proper officer.

To A B, one of the justices of the peace for the county of S, complains C D.

This verb is regularly followed by of, before the cause of grief or censure; as, to complain of thirst, of ignorance, of vice, of an offender.

5. To represent injuries, particularly in a writ of Audita Querela.

COMPLAIN, verb transitive To lament; to bewail.

They might the grievance inwardly complain

This use of complain is uncommon, and hardly legitimate. The phrase is properly elliptical.

Complainable

COMPLAINABLE, adjective That may be complained of.

Complainant

COMPLAINANT, noun

1. A prosecutor; one who prosecutes by complaint, or commences a legal process against an offender for the recovery of a right or penalty.

He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town; and the other moiety to the use of the complainant

2. The plaintiff in a writ of Audita Querela.

Complainer

COMPLAINER, noun One who complains, or expresses grief; one who laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts. Jude 1:16.

Complainful

COMPLAINFUL, adjective Full of complaint.

Complaining

COMPLAINING, participle present tense Expressing grief, sorrow, or censure; finding fault; murmuring; lamenting; accusing of an offense.

COMPLAINING, noun The expression of regret, sorrow, or injury.

Complaint

COMPLAINT, noun

1. Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; a finding fault.

Even to day is my complaint bitter. Job 23:2.

2. The cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.

The poverty of the clergy hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church.

3. The cause of complaint or of pain and uneasiness in the body; a malady; a disease; usually applied to disorders not violent; as a complaint in the bowels or breast.

4. Accusation; a charge against an offender, made by a private person or informer to a justice of the peace or other proper officer, alleging that the offender has violated the law, and claiming the penalty due to the prosecutor. It differs from an information, which is the prosecution of an offender by the Attorney or Solicitor General; and from a presentment and indictment, which are the accusation of a Grand Jury.

5. Representation of injuries, in a general sense; and appropriately, in a writ of Audita Querela.

Complaisance

COMPLAISANCE, noun

1. A pleasing deportment; courtesy; that manner of address and behavior in social intercourse which gives pleasure; civility; obliging condescension; kind and affable reception and treatment of guests; exterior acts of civility; as, the gentleman received us with complaisance

2. Condescension; obliging compliance with the wishes or humors of others.

In complaisance poor Cupid mourned.

3. Desire of pleasing; disposition to oblige; the principle for the act.

Your complaisance will not permit your guests to be incommoded.

Complaisant

COMPLAISANT, adjective complazant. Pleasing in manners; courteous; obliging; desirous to please; as a complaisant gentleman.

2. Civil; courteous; polite; as complaisant deportment or treatment.

Complaisantly

COMPLAISANTLY, adverb complazantly. In a pleasing manner; with civility; with an obliging, affable address or deportment.

Complaisantness

COMPLAISANTNESS, noun Civility; complaisance.

Complanate

COMPLANATE,

COMPLANE, verb transitive [See Plane and Plain.] to make level; to reduce to an even surface.

Complane

COMPLANE, v.t. [See Plane and Plain.] to make level; to reduce to an even surface.

Complement

COMPLEMENT, noun

1. Fulness; completion; whence, perfection.

They as they feasted had their fill,

For a full complement of all their ill.

2. Full quantity or number; the quantity or number limited; as, a company has its complement of men; a ship has its complement of stores.

3. That which is added, not as necessary, but as ornamental; something adventitious to the main thing; ceremony. [See Compliment.]

garnished and decked in modest complement

4. In geometry, what remains of the quadrant of a circle, or of ninety degrees, after any arch has been taken from it. Thus if the arch taken is thirty degrees, its complement is sixty.

5. In astronomy, the distance of a star from the zenith.

6. Arithmetical complement of a logarithm, is what the logarithm wants of 10, 000, 000.

7. In fortification, the complement of the curtain is that part in the interior side which makes the demigorge.

Complemental

COMPLEMENTAL, adjective Filling; supplying a deficiency; completing.

Complementary

COMPLEMENTARY, noun One skilled in compliments.

Complete

COMPLETE, adjective

1. Having no deficiency; perfect.

And ye are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power. Colossians 2:10.

2. Finished; ended; concluded; as, the edifice is complete

This course of vanity almost complete

In strict propriety, this word admits of no comparison; for that which is complete cannot be more or less so. But as the word, like many others, is used with some indefiniteness of signification, it is customary to qualify it with more, most, less and least. More complete most complete less complete are common expressions.

3. In botany, a complete flower is one furnished with a calyx and corolla. Vaillant. Or having all the parts of a flower.

COMPLETE, verb transitive

1. To finish; to end; to perfect; as, to complete a bridge, or an edifice; to complete an education.

2. To fill to accomplish; as, to complete hopes or desires.

3. To fulfil; to accomplish; to perform; as, the prophecy of Daniel is completed.

Completed

COMPLETED, participle passive Finished; ended; perfected fulfilled; accomplished.

Completely

COMPLETELY, adverb Fully; perfectly; entirely.

Completement

COMPLETEMENT, noun The act of completing; a finishing.

Completeness

COMPLETENESS, noun The state of being complete; perfection.

Completing

COMPLETING, participle present tense Finishing; perfecting; accomplishing.

Completion

COMPLETION, noun

1. Fulfilment; accomplishment.

There was a full entire harmony and consent in the divine predictions, receiving their completion in Christ.

2. Act of completing; state of being complete; utmost extent; perfect state; as, the gentleman went to the university for the completion of his education or studies.

The completion of a bad character is to hate a good man.

Completive

COMPLETIVE, adjective Filling; making complete.

Completory

COMPLETORY, adjective Fulfilling; accomplishing.

COMPLETORY, noun The evening service; the complin of the Romish church.

Complex

COMPLEX,

COMPLEXED, adjective

1. Composed of two or more parts or things; composite; not simple; including two or more particulars connected; as a complex being; a complex idea; a complex term.

Ideas made up of several simple ones, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, the universe.

2. Involved; difficult; as a complex subject.

COMPLEX, noun Assemblage; collection; complication.

This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges of the gospel.

Complexed

COMPLEXED, a. 1. Composed of two or more parts or things; composite; not simple; including two or more particulars connected; as a complex being; a complex idea; a complex term.Ideas made up of several simple ones, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, the universe.2. Involved; difficult; as a complex subject.

Complexedness

COMPLEXEDNESS, noun Complication; involution of parts in one integral; compound state; as the complexedness moral ideas.

Complexion

COMPLEXION, noun

1. Involution; a complex state.

2. The color of the skin, particularly of the face; the color of the external parts of a body or thing; as a fair complexion; a dark complexion; the complexion of the sky.

3. The temperament, habitude, or natural disposition of the body; the peculiar cast of the constitution, which gives it a particular physical character; a medical term, but used to denote character, or description; as, men of this or that complexion

Tis ill, Though different your complexions are,

The family of heaven for men should war.

Complexional

COMPLEXIONAL, adjective Depending on or pertaining to complexion; as complexional efflorescencies; complexional prejudices.

Complexionally

COMPLEXIONALLY, adverb By complexion.

Complexionary

COMPLEXIONARY, adjective Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it.

Complexioned

COMPLEXIONED, adjective Having a certain temperament or state.

Complexity

COMPLEXITY, noun The state of being complex; complexness.

COMPLEXITY, adverb In a complex manner; not simply.

Complexness

COMPLEXNESS, noun The state of being complex or involved.

Complexure

COMPLEXURE, noun The involution or complication of one thing with others.

Compliable

COMPLIABLE, adjective [See Comply.] that can bend or yield.

Compliance

COMPLIANCE, noun [See comply.]

1. The act of complying; a yielding, as to a request, wish, desire, demand or proposal; concession; submission.

Let the king meet compliance in your looks,

A free and ready yielding to his wishes.

2. A disposition to yield to others.

He was man of few words and great compliance

3. Obedience; followed by with; as compliance with a command, or precept.

4. Performance; execution; as a compliance with the conditions of a contract.

Compliant

COMPLIANT, adjective

1. Yielding, bending; as the compliant boughs. [See Pliant, which is generally used.]

2. Yielding to request or desire; civil; obliging.

Compliantly

COMPLIANTLY, adverb In a yielding manner.

Complicacy

COMPLICACY, noun A state of being complex or intricate.

Complicate

COMPLICATE, verb transitive

1. Literally, to interweave; to fold and twist together. Hence, to make complex; to involve; to entangle; to unite or connect mutually or intimately, as different things or parts; followed by with.

Our offense against God hath been complicated with injury to men.

So we say, a complicated disease; a complicated affair.

Commotion in the parts may complicate and dispose them after the manner requisite to make them stick.

2. To make intricate.

COMPLICATE, adjective

1. Complex; composed of two or more parts united.

Through the particular actions of war are complicate in fact, yet they are separate and distinct in right.

2. In botany, folded together, as the valves of the glume or chaff in some grasses.

Complicated

COMPLICATED, participle passive Interwoven; entangled; involved; intricate; composed of two or more things or parts united.

Complicately

COMPLICATELY, adverb In a complex manner.

Complicateness

COMPLICATENESS, noun The state of being complicated; involution; intricacy; perplexity.

Complicating

COMPLICATING, participle present tense Interweaving; infolding; uniting.

Complication

COMPLICATION, noun

1. The act of interweaving, or involving two or more things or parts; the state of being interwoven, involved or intimately blended.

The notions of a confused knowledge are always full of perplexity and complications.

2. The integral consisting of many things involved or interwoven, or mutually united.

By admitting a complication of ideas--the mind is bewildered.

Complice

COMPLICE, noun One who is united with another in the commission of a crime, or in an ill design; an associate or confederate in some unlawful act or design; an accomplice. The latter is now used. [See Accomplice.]

Complied

COMPLIED, preterit tense of comply.

Complier

COMPLIER, noun One who complies, yields or obeys; a person of ready compliance; a man of an easy, yielding temper.

Compliment

COMPLIMENT, noun

1. An expression of civility, respect or regard; as, to send, or make ones compliments to an absent friend. In this application, the plural is always used.

He observed few compliments in matter of arms.

2. A present or favor bestowed. My friend made me a compliment of Homers Iliad.

COMPLIMENT, verb transitive

1. To praise; to flatter by expressions of approbation, esteem or respect.

Monarchs--

Should compliment their foes, and shun their friends.

She compliments Menelaus very handsomely.

2. To congratulate; as, to compliment a prince on the birth of a son.

3. To bestow a present; to manifest kindness or regard for, by a present or other favor.

He complimented us with tickets for the exhibition.

COMPLIMENT, verb intransitive To pass compliments; to use ceremony, or ceremonious language.

I make the interlocutors upon occasion compliment with each other.

Complimental

COMPLIMENTAL, adjective Expressive of civility or respect; implying compliments.

Languages--grow rich and abundant in complimental phrases, and such froth.

Complimentally

COMPLIMENTALLY, adverb In the nature of a compliment; by way of civility, or ceremony.

Complimenter

COMPLIMENTER, noun One who compliments; one given to compliments; a flatterer.

Complin

COMPLIN, noun The last division of the Romish breviary; the last prayer at night, to be recited after sun-set; so called because it closes the service of the day.

Compline

COMPLINE,

COMPLISH, for accomplish, is not now used.

Complish

COMPLISH, for accomplish, is not now used.

Complot

COMPLOT, noun A plotting together; a joint plot; a plot; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.

I know their complot is to have my life.

COMPLOT, verb transitive To plot together; to conspire; to form a plot; to join in a secret design, generally criminal.

We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scene of miseries to the Trojans.

Complotment

COMPLOTMENT, noun A plotting together; conspiracy.

Complotted

COMPLOTTED, participle passive Plotted together; contrived.

Complotter

COMPLOTTER, noun One joined in a plot; a conspirator.

Complotting

COMPLOTTING, participle present tense Plotting together; conspiring; contriving an evil design or crime.

Comply

COMPLY , verb intransitive

1. To comply with, to fulfil; to perfect or carry into effect; to complete; to perform or execute; as, to comply with a promise, with an award, with a command, with an order. So to comply with ones expectations or wishes, is to fulfil them, or complete them.

2. To yield to; to be obsequious; to accord; to suit; followed by with; as, to comply with a mans humor.

The truth of things will not comply with or conceits.

Complyping

COMPLYPING with, participle present tense Fulfilling; performing; yielding to.

Compone

COMPONE,

COMPONED, In heraldry, a bordure or composed of a row of angular parts or checkers of two colors.

Componed

COMPONED, In heraldry, a bordure or composed of a row of angular parts or checkers of two colors.

Component

COMPONENT, adjective Literally, setting or placing together; hence, composing; constituting; forming a compound; as the component parts of a plant or fossil substance; the component parts of a society.

Comport

COMPORT, verb intransitive To comport with, literally, to bear to or with; to carry together. Hence, to agree with; to suit; to accord; as, to consider how far our charity may comport with our prudence. His behavior does not comport with his station.

COMPORT, verb transitive

1. With the reciprocal pronoun, to behave; to conduct.

It is curious to observe how lord Somers--comported himself on that occasion.

2. To bear; to endure; as in French, Spanish and Italian.

COMPORT, noun Behavior; conduct; manner of acting.

I knew them well, and marked their rude comport

This word is rarely or never used, but may be admissible in poetry. We now use deportment. The accent, since Shakespeares time, has been transferred to the first syllable.

Comportable

COMPORTABLE, adjective Suitable; consistent.

We cast the rules of this art into some comportable method.

Comportance

COMPORTANCE, noun Behavior; deportment.

Comportation

COMPORTATION, noun An assemblage.

Comportment

COMPORTMENT, noun Behavior; demeanor; manner of acting. Possessed of mind; in a sound state of mind.

Compose

COMPOSE, verb transitive s as z. Literally, to place or set together. Hence,

1. To form a compound, or one entire body or thing, by uniting two or more things, parts, or individuals; as, to compose an army of raw soldiers; the parliament of G. Britain is composed of two houses, lords and commons; the senate of the United States is composed of two senators from each state.

Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affections.

2. To invent and put together words and sentences; to make, as a discourse or writing; to write, as an author; as, to compose a sermon, or a book.

3. To constitute, or form, as parts of a whole; as, letters compose syllables, syllables compose words, words compose sentences.

A few useful things, confounded with many trifles, fill their memories, and compose their intellectual possessions.

4. To calm; to quiet; to appease; to tranquilize; that is, to set or lay; as, to compose passions, fears, disorders, or whatever is agitated or excited.

5. To settle; to adjust; as, to compose differences.

6. To place in proper form, or in a quiet state.

In a peaceful grave my corpse compose

7. To settle into a quiet state.

The sea composes itself to a level surface. It requires about two days to compose it after a gale.

8. To dispose; to put in a proper state for any purpose.

The army seemed will composed to obtain that by their swords which they could not by their pen.

9. In printing, to set types or characters in a composing stick, from a copy, arranging the letters in the proper order.

10. In music, to form a tune or piece of music with notes, arranging them on the stave in such a manner as when sung to produce harmony.

Composed

COMPOSED, participle passive

1. Set together, or in due order; formed; constituted; calmed; quieted; settled; adjusted.

2. adjective Calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; free from agitation.

The Mantuan there is sober triumph sat,

COMPOSED his posture, and his look sedate.

Composedly

COMPOSEDLY, adverb Calmly; seriously; sedately.

The man very composedly answered, I am he.

Composedness

COMPOSEDNESS, noun A state of being composed; calmness; sedateness; tranquility.

Composer

COMPOSER, noun

1. One who composes; one who writes an original work, as distinguished from a compiler; an author; also, one who forms tunes, whether he adapts them to particular words or not.

2. One who quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.

Composing

COMPOSING, participle present tense Placing together; forming; constituting; writing an original work; quieting; settling; adjusting; setting types.

Composing-Stick

COMPOSING-STICK, noun Among printers, an instrument on which types are set from the cases, adjusted to the length of the lines.

Composite

COMPOSITE, adjective In architecture, the composite order is the last of the five orders of columns; so called because its capital is composed out of those of the other orders or columns, borrowing a quarter-round from the Tuscan and Doric, a row of leaves from the Corinthian, and volutes from the Ionic. Its cornice has simple modillions or dentils. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order.

COMPOSITE numbers are such as can be measured exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or e; so that r is the lowest composite number. composite numbers between themselves, are those which have a common measure besides unity; as 12 and 15, both which are measured by e.

Composition

COMPOSITION, noun s as z.

1. In a general sense, the act of composing, or that which is composed; the act of forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts or ingredients; or the whole body, mass or compound, thus formed. Thus we speak of the composition of medicines, by mixing divers ingredients, and call the whole mixture a composition A composition of sand and clay is used for luting chimical vessels.

Vast pillars of stone, cased over with a composition that looks like marble.

Heat and vivacity, in age, is an excellent composition for business.

2. In literature, the act of inventing or combining ideas, clothing them with words, arranging them in order, and in general, committing them to paper, or otherwise writing them. Hence,

3. A written or printed work; a writing, pamphlet or book.

4. In music, the act or art of forming tunes; or a tune, song, anthem, air, or other musical piece.

5. The state of being placed together; union; conjunction; combination.

Contemplate things first in their simple natures, and then view them in composition

6. The disposition or arrangement of figures connected in a picture.

By composition is meant the distribution and orderly placing of things, both in general and particular.

7. Adjustment; orderly disposition. Ben Jonson speaks of the composition of gesture, look, pronunciation and motion, in a preacher.

8. Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy.

Thus we are agreed;

I crave our composition may be written.

9. Mutual agreement for the discharge of a debt, on terms or by means different from those required by the original contract, or by law, as by the payment of a different sum, or by making other compensation. Hence, the sum so paid, or compensation given, in lieu of that stipulated or required.

A read composition is when an agreement is made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with the consent of the ordinary and the patron, that such lands shall for the future be discharged rom the payment of tithes, by reason of some land or other real recompense given to the parson, in lieu and satisfaction thereof.

A bankrupt is cleared by a commission of bankruptcy, or by composition with his creditors.

10. Consistency; congruity.

11. The act of uniting simple ideas in a complex idea or conception; opposed to analysis.

12. The joining of two words in a compound, as in book-case; or the act of forming a word with a prefix or affix, which varies its signification; as return, from turn; preconcert, from concert; endless from end.

13. The synthetical method of reasoning; synthesis; a method of reasoning from known or admitted truths or principles, as from axioms, postulates or propositions previously demonstrated, and from these deducing a clear knowledge of the thing to be proved; or the act of collecting scattered parts of knowledge, and combining them into a system, so that the understanding is enabled distinctly to follow truth through its different stages of gradation. This method of reasoning is opposed to analysis or resolution. It begins with first principles, and by a train of reasoning from them, deduces the propositions or truths sought. composition or synthesis proceeds by collecting or combining; analysis or resolution, by separating or unfolding.

14. In printing, the act of setting types or characters in the composing-stick, to form lines, and of arranging the lines in a galley, to make a column or page, and from this to make a form.

15. In chimistry, the combination of different substances, or substances of different natures, by affinity; from which results a compound substance, differing in properties from either of the component parts. Thus water is a composition of hydrogen and oxygen, which are invisible gases.

Compositor

COMPOSITOR, noun a as z.

1. In printing, one who sets types, and makes up the pages and forms.

2. One who sets in order.

Compossible

COMPOSSIBLE, adjective Consistent.

Compost

COMPOST, noun In agriculture, a mixture or composition of various manuring substances for fertilizing land. compost may be made by almost every animal and vegetable substance in nature, with lime or other earthy matter.

COMPOST, verb transitive To manure with compost

Composture

COMPOSTURE, noun Soil; manure.

Composure

COMPOSURE, noun

1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition; as a form of prayer of public composure; a hasty composure

In the composures of men, remember you are a man.

In this use, this word has given way to composition.

2. Composition; combination; arrangement; order.

When such a composure of letters, such a word, is intended to signify a certain thing.

3. The form, adjustment, or disposition of the various parts.

In composure of his face,

Lived a fair but manly grace.

The outward form and composure of the body.

4. Frame; make; temperament.

His composure must be rare indeed,

Whom these things cannot blemish.

5. A settled state of the mind; sedateness; calmness; tranquility.

When the passions are silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure

6. Agreement; settlement of differences; composition.

The treaty at Uxbridge gave the fairest hopes of a happy composure

Compotation

COMPOTATION, noun The act of drinking or tippling together.

Compotator

COMPOTATOR, noun One who drinks with another.