3. To constitute by being parts of a COMPOSITE. adj. [compositus, Latin.] whole. Nor did Israel 'scape Th' infection, when their borrow'd gold compos'd The calf in Oreb. Milton's Paradise Lost. A few useful things confounded with many trifles, fill their memories, and compose their intellectual possessions. Watts. 6. To calm; to quiet. He would undertake the journey with him, by which all his fears would be composed. Clarend. You, that had taught them to subdue their foes, Could order, teach, and their high spirits compose. He, having a full command over the water, Yet, to compose this midnight noise, Go, freely search where'er you please. Prior. 7. To adjust the mind to any business, by freeing it from disturbance. The mind, being thus disquieted, may not be able easily to compose and settle itself to prayer. Duppa's Rules for Devotion. We beseech thee to compose our thoughts, and preserve her reason, during her sickness. Swift. 8. To adjust; to settle: as, to compose a difference. 9. [With printers.] To arrange the letters; to put the letters in order in the composing stick 10. [In musick.] To form a tune from the different musical notes. COMPOSED, participial adj. [from compose.] Calm; serious; even; sedate. In Spain there is something still more serious and composed in the manner of the inhabitants. Addison on Italy. The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Campos'd his posture, and his look sedate. Pope. COMPOSEDLY. adv. [from composed.] Calmly; seriously; sedately. A man was walking before the door very composedly without a hat. One crying, here is the fellow that killed the duke; every body asked, which is he? The man without the hat very composedly answered, I am he. Clarendon, COMPO'SEDNESS. n. s. [from composed.] Sedateness; calmness; tranquillity. He that will think to any purpose, must have fixedness and composeness of humour, as well as smartness of parts. Norris. COMPU'SER. n. s. [from compose.] 1. An author; a writer. Now will be the right season of forming them to be able writers and composers in every excellent matter. Milton. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least do no harm, and shew n honest industry, and a good intention in the composer. Addison's Freeholder. 2. He that adapts the musick to words; he that forms a tune. For the truth of the theory I am in no wise concerned ; the composer of it must look to that. Woodward. For composition, I prefer next Ludovico, a most judicious and sweet composer. Peacham, The compiser has so expressed my sense, where I intended to move the passions, that he seems 're have been the poet as well as the composer. Dryden. The composite order in architecture is the hi of the five orders of columns; so named, because, its capital is composed out of those of the other orders: and it is also called the Roman and Ita lick order. Harrit. Some are of opinion, that the composite pillars of this arch were in imitation of the pillars of Solomon's temple. Addison COMPOSITION. n. s. [compositio, Latin.] 1. The act of forming an integral of vari•, ous dissimilar parts. We have exact forms of composition, whereby they incorporate almost as they were natural simples. Bacon's New Atalanti. In the time of the Yncas reign of Peru, no composition was allowed by the faws to be used in point of medicine, but only simples proper to each disease. Temple. 2. The act of bringing simple ideas into complication: opposed to analysis, or the separation of complex notions. The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. Newton's Opticks. 3: A mass formed by mingling different ingredients. Heat and vivacity, in age, is an excellent com position for business. Bacon's Essays. Vast pillars of stone, cased over with a compo sition that looks the most like marble of any thing one can imagine. Addison. Jove mix'd up all, and his best clay employ'd, Then call'd the happy composition Floyd. Swift. 4. The state of being compounded; union; conjunction; combination. Contemplate things first in their own simple natures, and afterwards view them in composition with other things. Watts. 5. The arrangement of various figures in a picture. The disposition in a picture is an assembling of many parts; it is also called the composition, by which is meant the distribution and orderly placing of things, both in general and in particular. Dryden's Dufresny, 6. Written work. Writers are divided concerning the authority of the greater part of those compositions that pass in his name. L'Estrange That divine prayer has always been looked upon as a composition fit to have proceeded from the wisest of men. Addison. When I read rules of criticism, I enquire after the works of the author, and by that means dis cover what he likes in a composition. Addison. 7. Adjustment; regulation. A preacher, in the invention of matter, elec tion of words, composition of gesture, look, pro nunciation, motion, useth all these faculties st Ben Jonson's Discor 8. Compact; agreement; terms on which differences are settled. once. To take away all such mutual grievances, in juries, and wrongs, there was no way but only by going upon composition and agreement amongst themselves. And again, all publick regiment, of what kind soever, seemeth evidently to have arisen from deliberate advice, consultation, and composition between men, judging it convenient and behoveful. Hooker Thus we are agreed; Shakspeart, Their courage droops; and, hopeless now, they wish For composition with the unconquer'd fish. Waller, 9. The act of discharging a debt by pay. ing part; the sum paid. 10. Consistency; congruity. There is no composition in these news, That gives them credit. -Indeed they are disproportion'd. Shakspeare. 11. [In grammar.] The joining of two words together; or the prefixing a particle to another word, to augment, di- minish, or change its signification. 32. A certain method of demonstration in mathematicks, which is the reverse of the analytical method, or of resolution. It proceeds upon principles in themselves self-evident; on definitions, postulates, and axioms, and a previously demonstrated series of propositions, step by step, till it gives a clear knowledge of the thing to be demonstrated. This is called the synthetical method, and is used by Euclid in his Elements. Harris. COMPOSITIVE. adj. [from compose.] Compounded; or, having the power of compounding. Dict. COMPOSITOR. n. s. [from compose.] He that ranges and adjusts the types in printing distinguished from the pressman, who makes the impression upon paper. : COMPOST. n. s. [Fr. compositum, Lat.] A mixture of various substances for enriching the ground; manure. Avoid what is to come; And do not spread the compost on the weeds, To make them ranker. Shakspeare's Hamlet. We also have great variety of composts and soils, for the making of the earth fruitful. · Bacon's Atalantis, Water young planted shrubs; amomum especially, which you can hardly refresh too often, and it requires abundant compost. Evelyn. There, as his dream foretold, a cart he found, That carried compost forth to dung the ground. Dryden. In vain the nursling grove Seems fair awhile, cherish'd with fester earth; But when the alien compost is exhaust, Its native poverty again prevails. To COMPOST. v. a. [from the noun.] To manure; to enrich with soil. Philips. By removing into worse earth, or forbearing to compost the earth, water-mint turneth into field-mint, and the colewort into rape. Bacon. As for earth, it composteth itself; for I knew a garden that had a field poured upon it, and it did bear fruit excellently. Baton. COMPO'STURE. n. s. [from compost.] Soil; manure. Not used. The earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrements. Shakspeare's Timon. COMPO'SURE. n. s. [from compose.] 1. The act of composing or inditing. Their own forms are not like to be so sound, or comprehensive of the nature of the duty, as forms of publick composure. K. Charles. 2. Arrangement; combination; mixture; order. Hence languages arise; when, by institution and agreement, such a composure of letters, such a word, is intended to signify such a certain thing. Holder's Elements of Speech. From the various composures and combinations I 5. Adjustment. 6. God will rather look to the inward raptures of the mind, than to the outward form and composure of the body. Duppa. Composition; framed discourse. Discourses on such occasions are seldom the productions of leisure, and should be read with those favourable allowances that are made to hasty composures. Atterbury In the composures of men, remember you are a Iman as well as they; and it is not their reason, but your own, that is given to guide you. Watts on the Minde 7. Sedateness; calmness; tranquillity. To whom the virgin majesty of Eve, As one who loves, and some unkindness meets, With sweet austere composure thus replied. Milt The calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure. Watts. 8. Agreement; composition; settlement of differences. The treaty at Uxbridge gave the fairest hopes of an happy composure. King Charles Van guard! to right and left the front unfold;" That all may see, who hate us, how we seek Peace and composure. Milton's Paradise Lost. Things were not brought to an extremity? there seems yet to be room left for a composure; hereafter there may be only for pity. Dryden. COMPOTA'TION. n. s. [compotatio, Lat.] The act of drinking or tippling together. We cannot have a single image that did not enter through the sight; but we have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture. Addison's Spectator. 4. [In grammar.] To form one word from two or more words. Where it and Tigris embrace each other under the city of Apamia, there do they agree of joint and compounded name, and are called Piso-Tigris. Raleigh's History of the World. 5. To compose by being united. Who 'd be so mock'd with glory, as to live . But in a dream of friendship? To have his pomp, and all what state compounds, But only painted like his varnish'd friends! Shakspeare's Timon. 6. To adjust a difference by some recession from the rigour of claims. I would to God all strifes were well don pounded! Shakspeare. If there be any discord or suits between any of the family, they are compounded and appeased. Bacon': New Atalantis. 7. To discharge a debt by paying only part. Shall I, ye gods! he cries, my debts compound? To COMPOUND. v. n. To come to terms of agreement, by abating something of the first demand, It has for before the thing accepted or remitted. They were, at last, glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. Glarendon. Pray but for half the virtues of this wife; Compound for all the rest, with longer life. Dry. 2. To bargain in the lump. Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow; Pompound with him by the year. Shakspeare. 3. To come to terms, by granting something on each side. Cornwal compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. Carere. Once more L come to know of thee; king Hudibras. If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound, 4. To determine. This is not in use. The ancient electrum had in it a fifth of silver to the gold; and made a compound metal, as fit for most uses as gold. Bacon. Compound substances are made up of two or more simple substances. Watts' Logick. 2. [In grammar.] Composed of two or more werds; not simple. Pope. Those who are his greatest admirers, seem pleased with them as beauties; I speak of his compound epithets. a. COMPOUND or aggregated Flower, in botany, is such as consists of many litthe Bowers, concurring together to make up one whole one; each of which has its style and stamina, and adhering seed, and are all contained within one and the same calyx: such are the sunflower, and dandelion. Harris. COMPOUND. n. s. [from the verb.] The mass formed by the union of many ingredients. For present use or profit, this is the rule: con sider the price of the two simple bodies; consider again the dignity of the one above the other in use; then see if you can make a compound, that will save more in price than it will lose in dignity of the use. Bacon's Physical Rem. As man is a compound and mixture of flesh as well as spirit. South's Sermons Love why do we one passion call, When 't is a compound of them all; Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet? Swift. COMPO'UNDABLE. adj. [from compound.] Capable of being compounded. COMPOUNDER. n.s. [from To compound.] 1. One who endeavours to bring parties to terms of agreement. Those softners, sweetners, compounders, and expedient-mongers, who shake their heads so strongly. Swift. 2. A mingler; one who mixes bodies. T COMPREHEND. v. a. [comprebende, Latin.] 1. To comprise; to include; to contain; to imply. If there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Raw. It would be ridiculous to grow old in the study of every necessary thing, in an art which comprehends so many several parts. Dryden. 2. To contain in the mind; to under stand; to conceive. Rome was not better by her Horace taught, Than we are here, to comprebend his thought. Waller. "T is unjust, that they who have not the least notion of heroic writing, should therefore condemn the pleasure which others receive from it, because they cannot comprebend it. Dryden. COMPREHENSIBLE. adj. [comprehensible, French; comprehensibilis, Latin.] 1. Intelligible; attainable by the mind; conceivable by the understanding. The horizon sets the bounds between the enlightened and dark parts of things, between what is and what is not comprehensible by us. 2. Possible to be comprised. Locke Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon COMPREHENSIBLY. adv. [from compre hensible. With great power of signification or understanding; significantly; with great extent of sense. Tillotson seems to have used comprehensibly for comprehensively. The words wisdom and righteousness are com monly used very comprehensibly, so as to signify Tillotson. all religion and virtue. COMPREHENSION. n. s. [comprehensio, Latin.] 1. The act or quality of comprising or containing; inclusion. In the Old Testament there is a close compr bension of the New, in the New an open discovery of the Old. Hooker. The comprehension of an idea, regards all essential modes and properties of it; so body, in its comprehension, takes in solidity, figure, quantity, mobility. Watts' Lorick. 2. Summary epitome; compendium; abstract; abridgment in which much is comprised. If we would draw a short abstract of human happiness, bring together all the various ingredients of it, and digest them into one prescription, we must at last fix on this-wise and religi ous aphorism in my text, as the sum and comprehension of all. Rogers. 3. Knowledge; capacity; power of the mind to admit and contain many ideas at once. You give no proof of decay of your judgment, and comprehension of all things within the compass of an human understanding. Dryden. 4. [In rhetorick.] A trope or figure, by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for the whole, or a definite number for an indefinite. Harris. COMPREHENSIVE. adj. [from comprebend.] 1. Having the power to comprehend or understand many things at once. 2. He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature: because he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours of the whole English nation in his age; not a single character has escaped him. Dryden's Fables, Preface His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head all interests weigh'd; All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd. Pope's Epistles. Having the quality of comprising much; compendious; extensive. So diffusive, so comprehensive, so catholick a grace is charity, that whatever time is the opportunity of any other virtue, that time is the opportunity of charity. Spratt's Sermons. COMPREHENSIVELY ado. [from com prehensive. In a comprehensive manner. COMPREHENSIVENESS. n. s. [from comprehensive.] The quality of including much in a few words or narrow compass. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison. blest, And in his cave the yielding nymph comprest. Pope's Odyssey. There was in the island of lo a young girl compressed by a genius, who delighted to associate with the muses. Pope. COMPRESS. n. s. [from the verb.] Bolsters of linen, by which surgeons suit their bandages for any particular part Quincy. I applied an intercipient about the ankle and upper part of the foot, and by compress and bandage dressed it up. Wiseman. COMPRESSIBILITY. n. s. [from compressible.] The quality of being compres or purpose. sible; the quality of admitting to be brought by force into a narrower compass: as air may be compressed, but water can by no violence be reduced to less space than it naturally occupies. COMPRESSIBLE. adj. [from compress.] Capable of being forced into a narrower compass; yielding to pressure, so as that one part is brought nearer to another. There being spiral particles, accounts for the elasticity of air; there being spherical particles, which gives free passage to any heterogeneous matter, accounts for air's being compressible. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. COMPRESSIBLENESS. n. 3. [from compressible.] Capability of being pressed close. Dict. COMFRE'SSION. n. s. [compressio, Latin.] The act of bringing the parts of any body more near to each other by violence; the quality of admitting such an effort of force as may compel the body compressed into a narrower space. Whensoever a solid body is pressed, there is an inward tumult in the parts, seeking to deliver themselves from the compression; and this is the cause of all violent motion. Bacon. The powder in shot, being dilated into such a flame as endureth not compression, moveth in round, the flame being in the nature of a liquid body, sometimes recoiling. Bacon. Tears are the effects of the compression of the moisture of the brain, upon dilatation of the Bacon's Natural History. spirits. Merry Michael, the Cornish poet, piped this upon his oaten pipe for merry England, but with a mocking compression for Normandy. Camden's Remains. He that shall find out an hypothesis, by which water may be so fare, and yet not be capable of compression by force, may doubtless, by the same hypothesis, make gold and water, and all other bodies, as much rarer as he pleases; so that light may find a ready passage through transparent Newton. substances. COMPRE'SSURE. n. s. [from compress.] The act or force of one body pressing against another. on We tried whether heat would, notwithstanding so forcible a compressure, dilate it. Boyle. To COMPRINT. v, 2. (comprimere, Lat.] To print together; it is commonly taken, in law, for the deceitful printing of another's copy, or book, to the prejudice of the rightful proprietor. Phillips' World of Words. To COMPRISE; v. a. (comprendre, com pris, French.] To contain; to comprehend; to include. Necessity of shortness causeth men to cut off impertinent discourses, and to comprise much matter in few words. Hooker. Do they not, under doctrine, comprehend the same that we intend by matters of faith? Do not they, under discipline, comprise the regimen of the church? Hooker. 'Tis the polluted love that multiplies; But friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon, COMPROBATION. n. s. [comprobo, Lat.] Proof; attestation. That is only esteemed a legal testimony, which receives comprobation from the mouths of at least two witnesses. Brow COMPROMISE. n. s. [compromissum, Latin.] 1. A mutual promise of two or more parties at difference, to refer the ending of their controversies to the arbitrement or equity of one or more arbitrators.Conwell. 2. A compact or bargain, in which some concessions are made on each side. Wars have not wasted it: for warr'd he hath not; But basely yielded, upon compromise, That which his ancestors achiev'd with blows. Shakspeare's Richard 11. To COMPROMISE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To compound; to adjust a compact by mutual concessions: as, they compromised the affair at a middle rate. 2. In Shakspeare it means, unusually, to accord, to agree. Laban and himself were compromis'd, That all the yearlings which were streak'd and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire. Mer. of Venice. COMPROMISSOʻRIAL. adj. [from compromise.] Relating to a compromise. COMPROVINCIAL. n. J. [from con and provincial.] Belonging to the same province. At the consecration of an archbishop, all his comprovincials ought to give their attendance. Ayliffe's Parergon. COMPT. n, s. [compte, French; computus, Latin.] Account; computation; rec koning. Your servants ever Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt, To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, Still to return your own. Shakspeare's K. John. To COMPT. v. a [compter, French] To compute; to number. We now use To COUNT, which see. CO'MPTIBLE. adj. [from compt.] Accountable; responsible; ready to give account; subject; submissive. Good beauties, let me sustain my scorn; I am sery comptible even to the least sinister usage. Shakspeare. To COMPTRO'LL. v. a. [This word is written by some authors, who did not attend to the etymology, for control; and some of its derivatives are written in the same manner.] To control; to overrule; to oppose. COMPTROLLER. n. s. [from comptroll.] Director; supervisor; superior intendant; governour. This night he makes a supper, and a great one, I was spoke to, with sir Henry Guilford, Shakspeare. The comptrollers of vulgar opinions pretend to find out such a similitude in some kind of baboons. Temple. My fates permit me not from hence to fly; Nor he, the great comptroller of the sky. Drgd. COMPTROLLERSHIP...fromcomptrol ler.] Superintendance. The gayle for staunery-causes is annexed to the comptrollership. Carew's Sur. of Cornwal COMPULSATIVELY. adv. [from compulsatory.] With force; by constraint. COMPULSATORY. adj. [from compulsor, Lat.] Having the force of compelling; coactive. But to recover from us by strong hand, And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands COMPULSION: n. s. [compulsio, Latin.] So by his father lost. Shakspeare's Hamid, The act of compelling to something; force; violence of the agent. 1. If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion. Shak Thoughts, whither have ye led me? with that sweet Compulsion thus transported! Milton's Par. Let Such sweet compulsion doth in musick lie, To lull the daughters of necessity. Mikon. 2. The state of being compelled; violence suffered. Compulsion is, in an agent capable of volition, when the beginning or continuation of any action is contrary to the preference of his mind. Lock. When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low! Milton's Par. Lest, This faculty is free from compulsion, and so spontaneous, and free from determination by the particular object. Hale. Possibly there were others who assisted Harck, partly out of fear and compulsion. Hal. COMPULSIVE. adj. [from compulser, Fr. compulsus, Lat.] Having the power to cómpel; forcible. The Danube, vast and deep, Supreme of rivers! to the frightful brink, Urg'd by compulsive arms, soon as they reach'd, New terror chill'd their veins. Phillip The clergy would be glad to recover their dues by a more short and compulsive method. Swift. COMPULSIVELY, adv.[from compulsivè.) COMPULSIVENESS. n. 3. [from compl By force; by violence. sive.] Force; compulsion. COMPULSORILY. ada. [from compulsory.} In a compulsory or forcible manner; by force; by violence. Bares To say that the better deserver, hath such right to govern, as he may compulsorily bring under the less worthy, is idle. COMPULSORY. adj. [compulsoire, Fr.) Having the power of necessitating or compelling. He erreth in this: to think that actions, proceeding from fear, are properly compulsory tions; which, in truth, are not only voluntary,but free actions; neither compelled, nor so much 25 physically necessitated. Bramball against Hibler. Kindly it would be taken to comply with a patent, although not compulsory. Swift. COMPU’NCTION. n. s. [componction, Fr. from pungo, punctum, to prick, Lat.] 1. The power of pricking; stimulation; irritation. This is that acid and piercing spirit, which, with such activity and compunction, invadeth the brain and nostrils of those that receive it. Brown's Vulgar Errors. 2. The state of being pricked by the con science; repentance; contrition. He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction. Clarendon, COMPUNCTIOUS.adj. [from compunction.] Repentant; sorrowful; tender. Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctions visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. COMPU'NCTIVE. adj. [from compunctio Shakspeare's Math Causing remorse. |
